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Making Cinnabar Red Pigment — Grinding Mercury Sulfide into the Most Vivid Red of the Ancient World
by Charlie
ART
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Making Dammar Varnish — The Clear Picture Varnish for Oil Paintings
by Charlie
ART
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Making Green Earth Pigment (Terra Verte) — The Soft Green of Celadonite and Glauconite
by Charlie
ART
25
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Making Malachite Green Pigment — Grinding the Copper Mineral into Painter's Green
by Charlie
Pigment Color
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Making Prussian Blue — The First Modern Synthetic Pigment (Berlin, 1704)
by Charlie
Painting
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Making Smalt — Grinding Cobalt Blue Glass into the Renaissance Painter's Blue Pigment
by Charlie
Middle Ages
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Making Traditional Gesso — The White Ground That Prepared Every Panel Painting in History
by Charlie
ART
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Making Vine Black Pigment — Charring Grape Vines into the Cool Blue-Black of Classical Painters
by Charlie
ART
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Water Gilding with Gold Leaf — Applying Gold to Gesso and Bole for a Mirror Finish
by Charlie
ART
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Making Chalk White Pigment (Whiting) — Grinding and Levigating Natural Chalk
by Charlie
Chemistry
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Making Encaustic Paint — The Hot Beeswax Medium of Ancient Greek and Egyptian Painters
by Charlie
Pigment Color
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Making a Lake Pigment from Plant Dye — Precipitating Soluble Colour onto an Insoluble Substrate
by Charlie
ART
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Making Lampblack Pigment — Collecting Carbon Soot from a Burning Flame
by Charlie
ART
15
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Making Red Ochre by Calcining Yellow Ochre — The Oldest Deliberate Pigment Transformation
by Charlie
ART
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Making Ultramarine from Lapis Lazuli — Extracting the Most Precious Pigment in History
by Charlie
Chemistry
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Making Verdigris — The Copper Acetate Green of Medieval Painters
by Charlie
Chemistry
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Making Hide Glue by Boiling Rawhide Scraps — Prehistoric Collagen Adhesive
by Bob
Adhesives & Coatings
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Building a Figure-4 Deadfall Trap — Stone Weight Trigger Mechanism
by Bob
Prehistoric
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Setting a Simple Snare Trap on a Game Trail — Cordage Loop Hunting
by Bob
Prehistoric
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Drying Medicinal Herbs for Winter Storage — Preserving Nature's Pharmacy
by Bob
First Aid
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