Natural Colorants for Dyeing and Lake Pigments: Practical Recipes and their Historical Sources This simple handbook aims to enable readers to make their own lake pigments or dye their own textiles using dyes from naturally occurring raw materials in a simple way under relatively controlle
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| Title | : | Natural Colorants for Dyeing and Lake Pigments: Practical Recipes and their Historical Sources |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.89 (552 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1909492159 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-25 |
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This simple handbook aims to enable readers to make their own lake pigments or dye their own textiles using dyes from naturally occurring raw materials in a simple way under relatively controlled conditions and using recipes optimised for easy use in the laboratory or indeed the classroom. The book provides the basic principles of dying and lake pigment making (using the term lake pigment in its original, historical, sense indicating a naturally occurring dye precipitated onto a conventional usually white substrate, frequently a form of hydrated alumina) and from these the reader can try modifying the conditions or the amount of raw material, for example, to obtain different results. Suggestions for simple modifications are given.
Contents:
Introduction
Natural dyes and their sources - plants, insect reds and shellfish purple
The techniques of dyeing and pigment making - the basic chemistry behind the processes
Recipes for dyeing
Recipes for pi
Lots of info about different dyestuffs by color. These are not really stencils, it pictures of stencils.. The designs range from simple knots, to intricate designs taken from illuminated manuscripts like the book of Kells, and include large images (spirals, animals, human figures), repeating borders (spirals and knotwork that would look GREAT stencilled on a frame or along the edge of a table). Also period dye recipes. So far I have used the designs in this book to stencil (onto blank stamp crafting postcards) Celtic boar framed in knotwork post cards, two tattoos on my husband, a few computer graphics for my website, and I've only had it for a week!. Amazing book! Great for anyone who has an interest in historic dyeing. The pages of bibliographys alone is worth the price if the book!. very nice resource, will use for quilting stencils. This book comes with a wide array of designs, in solid black, so they can be cutout and used as stencils, but they could also be traced or scanned and
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