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Making Traditional Gesso — The White Ground That Prepared Every Panel Painting in History
by Charlie
Middle Ages
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Making Vine Black Pigment — Charring Grape Vines into the Cool Blue-Black of Classical Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
81
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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
Ancient
73
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3
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Making Chalk White Pigment (Whiting) — Grinding and Levigating Natural Chalk
by Charlie
Prehistoric
113
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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
66
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3
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Making a Lake Pigment from Plant Dye — Precipitating Soluble Colour onto an Insoluble Substrate
by Charlie
Ancient
116
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6
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Making Lampblack Pigment — Collecting Carbon Soot from a Burning Flame
by Charlie
Prehistoric
222
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6
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Making Red Ochre by Calcining Yellow Ochre — The Oldest Deliberate Pigment Transformation
by Charlie
Prehistoric
173
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7
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Making Ultramarine from Lapis Lazuli — Extracting the Most Precious Pigment in History
by Charlie
Middle Ages
120
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6
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Making Verdigris — The Copper Acetate Green of Medieval Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
126
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7
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Dyeing Red-Brown with Quebracho — The Industrial Tannin of South American Hardwood
by Tex
Industrial
62
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1
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Hazardous
Synthetic Indigo — BASF's Industrial Synthesis That Replaced a Global Crop
by Tex
Industry 2.0 — Electricity, Steel & Oil (1870)
137
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Whitney's Cotton Gin — Separating Seed from Fiber at Industrial Scale
by Tex
Industry 1.0 — Steam & Mechanization (1760)
48
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1
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Making Hide Glue by Boiling Rawhide Scraps — Prehistoric Collagen Adhesive
by Bob
Prehistoric
67
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Building a Figure-4 Deadfall Trap — Stone Weight Trigger Mechanism
by Bob
Prehistoric
60
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0
0
0
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Setting a Simple Snare Trap on a Game Trail — Cordage Loop Hunting
by Bob
Prehistoric
71
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1
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Drying Medicinal Herbs for Winter Storage — Preserving Nature's Pharmacy
by Bob
Winter
60
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0
0
3
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Preparing a Yarrow Wound Poultice — Prehistoric Herbal First Aid
by Bob
Prehistoric
85
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0
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5
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Rendering Beeswax from Honeycomb — The Original Natural Wax
by Bob
Biology
64
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0
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2
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Hot Composting from Kitchen and Garden Waste — Engineering a Microbial Decomposition Reactor
by Bob
Biology
27
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0
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Cultivating Oyster Mushrooms on Straw — Growing Edible Fungi from Spore to Harvest
by Bob
Biology
57
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1
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Growing a Kombucha SCOBY from Sweetened Tea — The Symbiotic Culture That Brews Itself
by Bob
Biology
89
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0
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3
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Culturing Yogurt from Bacterial Fermentation — The Oldest Probiotic Food
by Bob
Biology
70
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1
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Cultivating a Sourdough Starter from Wild Yeast — The Living Culture Behind the World's Oldest Bread
by Bob
Biology
76
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0
0
6
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