Results for "extinct pigment"
10 colours found.
Red
Rubia
A group of plants whose roots once dyed cloth and paint a lasting redColour named from nature 路 馃嚜馃嚞 Egypt +5
Green
Scheele's green
A yellowish-green pigment once prized for its brilliance, now infamous for its toxicityPigment
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Indian Yellow
A clear, glowing orange-yellow pigment once made in India from cow urinePigment 路 馃嚠馃嚦 India
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Mummy brown
A transparent brown pigment once made from ground Egyptian mummiesPigment 路 馃嚜馃嚞 Egypt
Red
Polish cochinealczerwiec polski
A crimson dye once vital to Poland, made from a native scale insectDye 路 馃嚨馃嚤 Poland +5
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Chrome orange
A yellowish to deep orange pigment once prized by 19th-century paintersPigment
White
Venetian ceruse
A white lead-based cosmetic once prized for skin whitening in Renaissance EuropePigment 路 馃嚠馃嚬 Italy +2
Yellow
Attic ochre
A prized bright yellow ochre once mined near Athens for art and fine decorationPigment 路 馃嚞馃嚪 Greece
Blue
Coventry blue
A blue cloth from Coventry, dyed with woad and known for its lasting colourNamed shade
Yellow
Dyer's saw-wort
A European plant once used for its yellow dye from the leavesColour named from nature 路 馃嚠馃嚜 Ireland +3
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Rubia: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mummy brown: Geni, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Scheele's green: Georg Friedrich Kersting, Public domain, source
- Venetian ceruse: George Vertue, Public domain, source
- Polish cochineal: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Attic ochre: ArchaiOptix, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Indian Yellow: Shisha-Tom, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Chrome orange: FK1954, CC0, source
- Dyer's saw-wort: Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0, source