become links and go to the experiments and results. I don't promise this will be a fast process or an up-to-date project. I only have a few other things going on...! ;)
Pigments- class hand out
Blues
Plants
Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) references
2017 Blue
Blue and "brown" blue
Elderberries (Sambucus species)
Painted out here
Mappae Clavicula recipe source discussion here
An elderberry of any other name, just don't eat S. ebulus
Blue and "brown" blue (Neven)
Indigo (Indigofera tinctoria)
Lulax means indigo 2018
Woad
Woad (Isatis tinctoria)
2017 Woad blue indigo pigment production in the florey
Greens
Exploring "Italian" and "Dutch" pink
Plants
Buckthorn (Rhamnus species), Sap green for positive id, see this website
2017
"quick and dirty" De Arte Illuminandi, overnight = sap green!
published in Tournaments Illuminated 2017
"Making Green Paint Medievally: With Irises in the Spring
and Buckthorn Berries in the Fall" Issue 202
2016:
published in EK Gazette "Making green paint using medieval recipes in May
from iris blossoms and September from buckthorn berries."
Experiment 1, De Arte Illuminandi
Experiment 2, Merrifield 420
Experiment 3, Merrifield 426, 558: vinegar fails, alum wins
2015:
Experiment 1, finding buckthorn
Experiment 2, De Arte Illuminandi
Experiment 3 "for dyeing skins"
Iris (Iris spp.) USDA pamphlet and more references
published in the EK Gazette and Re-edited and published for Tournaments Illuminated
issue 202, 2017
2016
2015
Verdigris
Vergaut
Yellows
Exploring "Italian" and "Dutch" pink
Ocher (Lemon Yellow)
Plants
Buckthorn (Rhamnus species)
2017-2018 yellow from ripe berries (Merrifield 428)
2016
De Arte Illuminandi, Experiment 2 green berries
2015
Experiment 1
Experiment 2
Calendula officianalis
2017
Saffron (Crocus sativus) painted here And more resource references here.
Weld: (Reseda luteola)
2015: Planted seeds in seed starting formula 4/13/15. It grew to a lovely rosette by the
fall but perished during the winter.
2016: Planted seeds in Scott's topsoil 6/03/16 "sow in situ in the spring and only just cover the seed" PFAF
2017: Pressed seeds into soil in the spring. Some may have germinated but no dye
or pigment prepared yet 11/2/18
Reds
Plants
Rubia tinctoria, madder, roots
Galium verum, wild madder, roots
2018 Galium mollogo roots collected
Anthocyanin
Papaver rhoeas L. (Neven)
Blacks
Plants
Lamp black
Vine Black
Grape Vine Black
Willow
White
Bone White
Chalk of Eggshells
Violet
Anthocyanins
Papaver rhoeas L. (Neven)
Sambucus species (Neven)
Vaccinium myrtillus L. (Neven)
Materials in medieval paint recipes:
Alum
chalk, naturally occurring calcite and calcium sulfate-carbonate (Bologna Chalk)
Chalk of Eggshells
Clothlets articles
iris 2015, 2016
buckthorn
gilding with garlic juice
lime
Lye
lye from wine lees and more
Rottenstone
Sal ammoniac
Eggs
glair
yolk
shells
Recipes, Classes and other projects:
Quick Cheese Class
The Whey To Make Cheeses, A Series, Cheese 2: Paneer
Fine Cakes, a spiced sugar cookie
Heathen Peas
Mulling pigments
Pigments Handout
Rendering Lard
Lard Candle
Soap
Scroll Layout Handout
Urchins (edible mini hedgehogs)
Shells and other palettes and tools in medieval manuscripts
I did some scrolls before I got carried away with pigment research and experiments:
They are listed alphabetically by recipient
Anna Ophelia Halloway Tarragon, Tyger of the East, AS 50
words, powerful but brief
scroll by Alexandre Saint Pierre
Brynhildr Ansvarsdottir, AoA AS 50
illuminator: Adrienne d'Evreus,
calligrapher: Alexandre Saint Pierre ,
word smith: Aneleda Falconbridge
Caine Ramsey, MOD, presented July 4th AS 50
Deormund Wulfscyld,
Grand Master Bowman, presented 7/2014, AS 49
Sagittarius, December 5, 2015, AS 50
Jamilia-al-Suba al-Hadid min Bhakail, OBT, May 30, A.S. 50 (L)
Leon d' Saint Aubin, OTC, presented August 23rd AS 49
Countess Marguerite inghean Lachlainn Archers of the Northern Army badge, NRWC 2013
Mariette de Bretagne, April 2 AS 50
Miron d'Allaines le Comte, AoA April 19 AS 48
Pypa Ravenild the Seaborne , AoA January 25, AS 48
Samuel Peter Bump, OBT crossbow stand, presented 7/2015, AS 50
Sister scroll for Tomas, Archers of the Northern Peaks badge, Birka 2014
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