07-28-2019, 07:25 PM
(07-28-2019, 05:09 PM)Feinman Wrote: Perhaps the answer is right under our noses:
http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?t=6811
It is one method that is also known from North America, the Native Americans apparantly used white clay balls to clean their white buckskin (unsmoked presumably) clothes, which were reserved for special occasions only as they were otherwise too prone to water damage... thats what I've read anyway.
I think white lead would work as it does seem to be a method of whitening veg tanned leather, at least according to tanning/finishing etc books from the lateish 19th century.
Another contender may be Tin Oxide this was used in makeup during the Roman Era:
https://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/temples...hwark.html
So I guess there are lots of potential possibilitys
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
