03-22-2018, 09:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-22-2018, 04:26 PM by Crispianus.)
(03-22-2018, 02:53 AM)Feinman Wrote: Reds can be achieved with cochineal and madder, a modern kermes, it creates a cool (as opposed to warm) red color, almost purple. Blues: indigotin reduction dye bath, minerals like azurite. Greens, a blue over a yellow, or verdigris, and other copper compounds applied as a paint.
Unfortunatly two of the Known "mediteranean" reds Armenian Cochineal and Kermes are rare or impossible to find today only Kermes is available in its raw form at 29€ a gram from Kremer Pigment, so too expensive to use for most purposes..
The Alternative is the commonly available Cochineal from America which although shares some similarity is not exactly the same, but its what I intend to use at least for testing purposes.. will keep you posted when I do...
The colour depends on how you treat it... would also need Alum tawed leather for best results, luckily theres a local specialist tanner... what was known as a Weisgerber here, though its now a common name...
From my point true Purple is out (see the Southfleet shoes) unfortunatly not just because of its extreme rarity but also because it stinks something rotten....
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
