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Making Dammar Varnish — The Clear Picture Varnish for Oil Paintings
by Charlie
Middle Ages
120
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4
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Making Green Earth Pigment (Terra Verte) — The Soft Green of Celadonite and Glauconite
by Charlie
Ancient
74
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0
0
6
0
Making Malachite Green Pigment — Grinding the Copper Mineral into Painter's Green
by Charlie
Ancient
75
0
0
0
9
0
Hazardous
Making Prussian Blue — The First Modern Synthetic Pigment (Berlin, 1704)
by Charlie
Modern
79
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0
0
7
0
Hazardous
Making Smalt — Grinding Cobalt Blue Glass into the Renaissance Painter's Blue Pigment
by Charlie
Middle Ages
52
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0
0
6
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Making Traditional Gesso — The White Ground That Prepared Every Panel Painting in History
by Charlie
Middle Ages
55
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0
0
8
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Making Vine Black Pigment — Charring Grape Vines into the Cool Blue-Black of Classical Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
58
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0
0
2
0
Water Gilding with Gold Leaf — Applying Gold to Gesso and Bole for a Mirror Finish
by Charlie
Ancient
40
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0
0
3
0
Making Chalk White Pigment (Whiting) — Grinding and Levigating Natural Chalk
by Charlie
Prehistoric
67
0
0
0
5
0
Making Encaustic Paint — The Hot Beeswax Medium of Ancient Greek and Egyptian Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
48
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0
0
3
0
Making a Lake Pigment from Plant Dye — Precipitating Soluble Colour onto an Insoluble Substrate
by Charlie
Ancient
67
0
0
0
6
0
Making Lampblack Pigment — Collecting Carbon Soot from a Burning Flame
by Charlie
Prehistoric
130
0
0
0
6
0
Making Red Ochre by Calcining Yellow Ochre — The Oldest Deliberate Pigment Transformation
by Charlie
Prehistoric
103
0
0
0
7
0
Making Ultramarine from Lapis Lazuli — Extracting the Most Precious Pigment in History
by Charlie
Middle Ages
74
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0
0
6
0
Making Verdigris — The Copper Acetate Green of Medieval Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
78
0
0
0
7
0
Dyeing Red-Brown with Quebracho — The Industrial Tannin of South American Hardwood
by Tex
Industrial
51
0
0
0
1
0
Hazardous
Synthetic Indigo — BASF's Industrial Synthesis That Replaced a Global Crop
by Tex
Industry 2.0 — Electricity, Steel & Oil (1870)
83
0
0
0
0
0
Whitney's Cotton Gin — Separating Seed from Fiber at Industrial Scale
by Tex
Cotton
35
0
0
0
1
0
Making Hide Glue by Boiling Rawhide Scraps — Prehistoric Collagen Adhesive
by Bob
Prehistoric
53
0
0
0
0
0
Building a Figure-4 Deadfall Trap — Stone Weight Trigger Mechanism
by Bob
Prehistoric
45
0
0
0
0
0