The Arts & Science blog of Lady Adrienne d'Evreus. Articles on Medieval Pigments, recipes, scribal art, and anything else she can think of from an artist in the East Kingdom.
In
medieval painting glair was sometimes used as a binding media for pigment. I
used the translation of the ”recommended” recipe from "an
anonymous eleventh-century tract in Berne, called De clarea..."
(Thompson 50).
Read on to see how I made some glair with a medieval recipe and modern equipment:
