This gallery contains in images from experiments in making natural mineral and botanical pigments, inks and art materials. Materials shown here include walnuts, woad, turnsole, weld, ochre, chalk, gum tragacanth, buckthorn, coreopsis, slate, charcoal, oak gall, madder, field madder, dyer’s chamomile and willow.
Welsh slate, charcoal and salt Woad in the making Woad drying Woad indigo Making walnut ink English Walnut skins Folium blue – turnsole Three inks Purple ochre Colours from home made pastels Home made pastels from natural pigments and chalk Ochres Oak galls Madder pigment Coreopsis ink Ochre and weld Homemade charcoal Roots of field madder Ink from dyer’s chamomile Homemade charcoal Greens from indigo and weld Chalk
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