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Colours made from madder root

5 colours that our sources say are made from madder root.

#E32636 Alizarin A deep red dye first made from madder roots, later produced from coal tarDye · 🇹🇷 Turkey +1 #A91101 Turkey red A lasting bright red dye for cotton, made from madder root by a complex processNamed shade · 🇹🇷 Turkey +4

#E32636 Alizarin crimson A deep red with blue undertones, once made from madder rootsNamed shade · 🇪🇬 Egypt

Red Red pigment Pigments made from minerals, plants, and insects to create red colours in artPigment · 🇫🇷 France +4

Red Rose madder A red dye and pigment from the roots of a climbing plantDye · 🇮🇳 India +4

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Alizarin crimson: Sojol Rana, Public domain, source
Alizarin: M. Girard - University of Kansas, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Red pigment: Marco Almbauer, Public domain, source
Rose madder: Carstor, CC BY-SA 3.0, source

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