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  2. Traditional dyes of the Scottish Highlands - Wikipedia

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    Traditional dyes of the Scottish Highlands are the native vegetable dyes used in Scottish Gaeldom.. The following are the principal dyestuffs with the colours they produce. Several of the tints are very bright, but have now been superseded for convenience of usage by various synthetic dy

  3. Page (servant) - Wikipedia

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    In return for his work, the page would receive training in horse-riding, hunting, hawking and combat – the essential skills required of adult men of his rank in medieval society. Less physical training included schooling in the playing of musical instruments, the composition and singing of songs, and the learning of board games such as chess.

  4. Tie-dye - Wikipedia

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    An example of a tie-dyed T-shirt A video about how to tie-dye. Tie-dye is a term used to describe a number of resist dyeing techniques and the resulting dyed products of these processes. The process of tie-dye typically consists of folding, twisting, pleating, or crumpling fabric or a garment, before binding with string or rubber bands ...

  5. Bandhani - Wikipedia

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    Bandhani craft. Bandhani is a type of tie-dye textile decorated by plucking the cloth with the fingernails into many tiny bindings that form a figurative design. [1] Today, most Bandhani making centers are situated in Gujarat, [2] Rajasthan, [1] Sindh, Punjab region [3] and in Tamil Nadu where it is known as Sungudi.

  6. Glossary of dyeing terms - Wikipedia

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    Resist techniques include screen printing, tie-dye, ikat, and batik. [39] royal purple Tyrian purple or royal purple is a purple-red dye which is extracted from several genera of sea snails, primarily Murex brandaris the spiny dye-murex (currently known as Bolinus brandaris). Murex dye was greatly prized in antiquity because it did not fade ...

  7. Canons of page construction - Wikipedia

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    Recto page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497). The canons of page construction are historical reconstructions, based on careful measurement of extant books and what is known of the mathematics and engineering methods of the time, of manuscript-framework methods that may have been used in Medieval- or Renaissance-era book design to divide a page into pleasing proportions.

  8. Minium (pigment) - Wikipedia

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    Medieval manuscripts often used red-orange minium pigment in the letters of the text and for small illustrations, called miniatures. Minium , also known as red lead or red lead oxide, is a bright orange red pigment that was widely used in the Middle Ages for the decoration of manuscripts and for painting.

  9. Natural dye - Wikipedia

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    The colorant at this stage has the consistency of fine, red mud. Color used as a dye can be diluted. [34] 1.5 kilograms (3.3 lb) of dried florets produces enough dye pigment to dye a small piece of fabric. The dye color is fixed in the fabric with a mordant. Darker shades are achieved by repeating the dyeing process several times, having the ...