SOURCES OF COLOUR.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 222, 19 September 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)

SOURCES OF COLOUR.

An interest enumeration has been published in a technical journal of the sources of coiaur. From this it appears that the cochineal insects ftirnish the gorgeous carmhie, crimson, scarlet-carmine, and purplelakes ; the cuttle-fish gives sepia— thai is the inky fluid -which the £sh discharges in order to veuder the water opaque when attacked ; the Indian yellow comes from the camel; ivory chips produce the ivory black and bone black ; the exquisite Prussian blue comes from fusing horsehoofs and other refuae matter with impure potassium CM^Jonate; -various lakes are, derived from roots, barks and gunis ; blue-black comes

frem the charcsoal of the vine stock ; Turkey red is made from the madder plant, which grows in Hindus-tan ; the yellow sap of a Siamese tree produces gamboge; raw sienna is the natural earth from the neighbourhood of Sienna, Italy ; raw umber is the earth Umod ne*r Uuabria ;; Indian ink is m&d&**HHU burned cam-' ffeor ; mastic is made {nun the gum #f the mastic tree which grows in the Grecian ArckipatagD, and bistre is the soot of wood ashes. Very Httle ultramarine, obtained from the T*eeious lapis lazuli, is found in tii» market. I

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