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Making Malachite Green Pigment — Grinding the Copper Mineral into Painter's Green
by Charlie
ART
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Making Prussian Blue — The First Modern Synthetic Pigment (Berlin, 1704)
by Charlie
Painting
31
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7
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Hazardous content
Making Smalt — Grinding Cobalt Blue Glass into the Renaissance Painter's Blue Pigment
by Charlie
Pigment Color
21
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6
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Making Traditional Gesso — The White Ground That Prepared Every Panel Painting in History
by Charlie
Painting
22
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Making Vine Black Pigment — Charring Grape Vines into the Cool Blue-Black of Classical Painters
by Charlie
ART
20
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2
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Water Gilding with Gold Leaf — Applying Gold to Gesso and Bole for a Mirror Finish
by Charlie
ART
15
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3
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Making Casein Paint from Milk and Lime — The Ancient Protein-Based Wall Paint
by Charlie
ART
28
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2
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Making Chalk White Pigment (Whiting) — Grinding and Levigating Natural Chalk
by Charlie
ART
33
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5
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Making Encaustic Paint — The Hot Beeswax Medium of Ancient Greek and Egyptian Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
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3
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Making Hide Glue Distemper — The Traditional Ceiling and Wall Paint of Europe
by Charlie
Painting
32
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4
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Making a Lake Pigment from Plant Dye — Precipitating Soluble Colour onto an Insoluble Substrate
by Charlie
Pigment Color
29
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6
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Making Lampblack Pigment — Collecting Carbon Soot from a Burning Flame
by Charlie
Prehistoric
57
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6
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Making Lime Wash — The Oldest and Simplest Wall Paint in the World
by Charlie
Prehistoric
35
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2
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Making Red Ochre by Calcining Yellow Ochre — The Oldest Deliberate Pigment Transformation
by Charlie
Pigment Color
47
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7
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Making Ultramarine from Lapis Lazuli — Extracting the Most Precious Pigment in History
by Charlie
ART
34
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6
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Making Verdigris — The Copper Acetate Green of Medieval Painters
by Charlie
Pigment Color
35
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7
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Dyeing Warm Brown with Coffee — The Universal Kitchen-Cupboard Dye
by Tex
Dyes & Pigments
34
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1
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Dyeing Orange-Gold with Dahlia — The Aztec Flower That Conquered European Gardens
by Tex
Dyes & Pigments
16
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1
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Dyeing Red with Dragon's Blood Resin — The Ancient Tree-Sap Pigment of the Spice Trade
by Tex
Colouring & Dyeing
34
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2
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Dyeing Pink-Mauve with Hibiscus — The Tropical Flower Dye of Ancient Egypt
by Tex
Textile & Leather
18
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1
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