Saturday, March 16, 2013

Fresh Out of Mummies

Fresh Out of Mummies - Perhaps it is just as well that some traditional pigments are no longer made from their original sources.

Sepia Brown was once made from the ink sac of the cuttlefish. There is a chemical substitute now, thank you God for small cephalopods.

* Indian yellow allegedly came from the concentrated urine of cows fed on mango leaves. It was banned in 108 because it was hard on the cows.

And brunette mom comes from Egyptian mummies remains ground up. They stopped in the twentieth century, when the supply of missed mummies.

* More on the Indian yellow mystery link link and .
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