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169 blueprints available • 22 subcategories

Blueprints (169)

Making Vine Black Pigment — Charring Grape Vines into the Cool Blue-Black of Classical Painters

Making Vine Black Pigment — Charring Grape Vines into the Cool Blue-Black of Classical Painters

by CharlieDE

ART

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Water Gilding with Gold Leaf — Applying Gold to Gesso and Bole for a Mirror Finish

Water Gilding with Gold Leaf — Applying Gold to Gesso and Bole for a Mirror Finish

by CharlieDE

ART

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Making Chalk White Pigment (Whiting) — Grinding and Levigating Natural Chalk

Making Chalk White Pigment (Whiting) — Grinding and Levigating Natural Chalk

by CharlieDE

ART

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Making Encaustic Paint — The Hot Beeswax Medium of Ancient Greek and Egyptian Painters

Making Encaustic Paint — The Hot Beeswax Medium of Ancient Greek and Egyptian Painters

by CharlieDE

Ancient

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Making a Lake Pigment from Plant Dye — Precipitating Soluble Colour onto an Insoluble Substrate

Making a Lake Pigment from Plant Dye — Precipitating Soluble Colour onto an Insoluble Substrate

by CharlieDE

Pigment Color

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Making Lampblack Pigment — Collecting Carbon Soot from a Burning Flame

Making Lampblack Pigment — Collecting Carbon Soot from a Burning Flame

by CharlieDE

Prehistoric

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Making Red Ochre by Calcining Yellow Ochre — The Oldest Deliberate Pigment Transformation

Making Red Ochre by Calcining Yellow Ochre — The Oldest Deliberate Pigment Transformation

by CharlieDE

Pigment Color

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Making Ultramarine from Lapis Lazuli — Extracting the Most Precious Pigment in History

Making Ultramarine from Lapis Lazuli — Extracting the Most Precious Pigment in History

by CharlieDE

ART

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Making Verdigris — The Copper Acetate Green of Medieval Painters

Making Verdigris — The Copper Acetate Green of Medieval Painters

by CharlieDE

Pigment Color

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Dyeing Red-Brown with Quebracho — The Industrial Tannin of South American Hardwood

Dyeing Red-Brown with Quebracho — The Industrial Tannin of South American Hardwood

by TexFO

Dyes & Pigments

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Synthetic Indigo — BASF's Industrial Synthesis That Replaced a Global Crop

Synthetic Indigo — BASF's Industrial Synthesis That Replaced a Global Crop

by TexFO

Textile & Leather

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Whitney's Cotton Gin — Separating Seed from Fiber at Industrial Scale

Whitney's Cotton Gin — Separating Seed from Fiber at Industrial Scale

by TexFO

Industrial

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Making Hide Glue by Boiling Rawhide Scraps — Prehistoric Collagen Adhesive

Making Hide Glue by Boiling Rawhide Scraps — Prehistoric Collagen Adhesive

by BobBE

Bushcraft

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Understanding Polonium from Uranium Ore — The Deadly Discovery That Launched Nuclear Science

Understanding Polonium from Uranium Ore — The Deadly Discovery That Launched Nuclear Science

by PeterSE

Industry 2.0 — Electricity, Steel & Oil (1870)

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Understanding Promethium from Nuclear Fission — The Phantom Lanthanide

Understanding Promethium from Nuclear Fission — The Phantom Lanthanide

by PeterSE

Nuclear

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Understanding Technetium from Nuclear Fission — The First Artificially Made Element

Understanding Technetium from Nuclear Fission — The First Artificially Made Element

by PeterSE

Nuclear

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Understanding Thorium from Monazite — The Nuclear Fuel That Could Replace Uranium

Understanding Thorium from Monazite — The Nuclear Fuel That Could Replace Uranium

by PeterSE

Nuclear

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Understanding Hafnium from Zircon — The Nuclear Fuel Rod Guardian

Understanding Hafnium from Zircon — The Nuclear Fuel Rod Guardian

by PeterSE

Chemistry

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Understanding Indium from Zinc Ore — The Soft Metal Behind Every Touchscreen

Understanding Indium from Zinc Ore — The Soft Metal Behind Every Touchscreen

by PeterSE

Chemistry

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Understanding Rhodium from Platinum Group Ore — The Most Expensive Industrial Metal

Understanding Rhodium from Platinum Group Ore — The Most Expensive Industrial Metal

by PeterSE

Industrial

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