Pigments & Paints

Recipes for inks and paints; also a small treatise on "the ordering of wines.&#34 ;

This bibliograp hy is primarily intended for the contributi ng authors and expert advisers of the Anglo-Saxo n Plant-Name Survey. It is, therefore, biased towards Anglo-Saxo n England, but with a wider range of titles in areas where this may be appropriat e to ASPNS studies.

The full text of the English translation, featuring recipes for artists' supplies, and instructions for techniques.

The science behind products used for illumination: slaked plaster, quill pens, iron gall inks, carbon inks, paints, and eggs.

Includes recipes and instructions for drawing charcoal, gesso, a gilder's pad, glair, gum ammoniac, gum arabic, hide glue, iron gall ink, lampblack ink, shell gold, slaked plaster, and walnut ink.

A series of engravings that bring to us the very clear representation of the crafts and technology of his time, and the relative importance which these discoveries and inventions had in the mind of a well-informed layman of the 16th century.

New Discoveries includes illustrations of: The Lodestone, The Magnet; The Astrolabe; America; Gunpowder; Printing Books; Iron Clocks; Guaiacum (a New World remedy for syphilis); Distillation; Silk, or the Silkworm; Stirrups, or Foot Rests; the Watermill; the Winged Mill (windmills); Olive Oil; Sugar; Oil Colors (oil-painting); Spectacles (eyeglasses); Longitudes of the Earth Found from the Deviation of the Magnet from the Pole; Polishing Armor; Engraving on Copper; and the travels & discoveries of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and Ferdinand Magellan.

Illustrations of painters, limners, and illuminators at work, from the 14th-16th centuries. Demonstrates the development and stylistic variations in easels, palettes, paintbrushes, and other tools used in these professions.

Pigments are the basis of all paints, and have been used for millennia. They are ground colored material. Early pigments were simply as ground earth or clay, and were made into paint with spit or fat. Modern pigments are often sophisticated masterpieces of chemical engineering. This exhibit includes most important pigments used through the early 20th century.

A discussion group for SCA bookbinders and those interested in scribal sciences such as paper making, ink and pigment creation, pen and quill making, etc.

Who kane wyesly considere the nature of his colours, and kyndely make hys commixtions with naturalle proporcions and mentalle indagacions, connectynge fro dyvers recepcions by resone of theyre naturys, he schalle make curius colourys, etc.