Pigment History

Most of the dyes came from organic sources: mostly plants like indigo for blue or madder root for red but also a few animals like cochineal beetles for carmine. (Hampden-Sydney's "garnet and grey" colors date back to the Civil War when the students dyed their civil war uniforms with pokeberries and butternut hickory husks.) With the rise of modern chemistry in the Nineteenth Century, some new ... ................
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