More Saffron yellow resources

From Booke of Secrets:

Another yellow

Mix saffron with the yolke of an eg, and it maketh a faire shining colour. Otherwise.
Put saffron and alum into a clout, and put vineger into it, and strain it out: or take saffron, the yolke of an eg, gum Arabike and alum, and mix them together.

And another from a translation of Simone's MS 1793 in the Getty's Historical Painting:

Wallert 1996

Calendula yellow

Calendula officinalis, pot marigold, is a beautiful little flower, sometimes called poor man's saffron.

I know one can make paint out of saffron, like I did here, so why not try Calendula?

 Read more about my Calendula experiment below!

Saffron paint

One of the first pigment experiments I did was with saffron.  Didn't it turn out pretty?!

 Read on for my references and methods...

Saffron Water and Saffron Yellow

A&S Project: Saffron Water 2015
1 TBSP boiling water with 6 strands of saffron.

Presented at Hadchester's Caristia III

 Contested by only myself, I won the People's Choice Award.

Using the saffron water as is half and half with Gum Arabic from Michael's it was too pale to see the resulting ink...

...so I added another pinch of saffron to the mixture.  Immediate results were obtained and I hope with more time a yellow ink will result as described by Cennino d'Andrea Cennini.

The paint results are here!