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two recipes for indigo..these come from the Bolognese Manuscript........this tome which contains these various esoteric Manuscripts(Medieval and Renaissance Treatises on the Arts of Painting by Mary P. Merryfield) was published at the behest of Her Majesty Queen Victoria during the 19th Century, so, who knows if any, much less all, of these Manuscripts are even extant ?? there are several massive Manuscripts contained within this antiquated tome.......one is { Extracts from A Manuscript in the Marciana Library at Venice, entitled Divers Secrets or Secreti Diversi } divers = diverse ~* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ to make fine indigo: take one part of flower of woad, which flower is collected in the dyers' vat when they are boiling woad; bake it well in an earthenware shovel, until it is well burnt; then grind it fine, and take 5 parts of the white earth which the fellmongers use, pound it and mix it well with the powder of woad: afterwards grind the whole with clear water upon a stone, like paint, then spread it on a smooth table, and let it dry a little in the sun; afterwards break it into small pieces and let it dry again in the sun..... then take some of the first composition and make it of the consistence of a rather thin soup, and put the pieces into it to soak: then take them out and dry them in the sun or at the fire and if the color is not sufficiently deep, renew the process as often as you think proper; afterwards dry it, and keep what you have made ~* to make indigo: first you must know that the various sorts of this color are made of a certain herb which is called woad and this herb is boiled down in a jar until no part of it remains; it is then dried and is called by different names: it is made in various places and is nearly perfect azure ~* |
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