The document discusses several plants that can be used to dye fabrics or paper different colors. It mentions that women in Alan-d use a yellow dye made from the milk of a plant without adding other chemicals. It also discusses how the Gothlanders make yellow dye from a common plant with curled leaves. Finally, it notes that Smsden described an unknown plant species that can dye a deep purple color.
The document discusses several plants that can be used to dye fabrics or paper different colors. It mentions that women in Alan-d use a yellow dye made from the milk of a plant without adding other chemicals. It also discusses how the Gothlanders make yellow dye from a common plant with curled leaves. Finally, it notes that Smsden described an unknown plant species that can dye a deep purple color.
The document discusses several plants that can be used to dye fabrics or paper different colors. It mentions that women in Alan-d use a yellow dye made from the milk of a plant without adding other chemicals. It also discusses how the Gothlanders make yellow dye from a common plant with curled leaves. Finally, it notes that Smsden described an unknown plant species that can dye a deep purple color.
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them(elves make a yellow dye with it from limpk dmodion of the plant, without the addition of my faline article. He adds, Mat thole, who woukl heighten the colour, add a fmall quantity of mama (*) to the decoftion. Profeffor Linnams tells us, that the Gothlanders manufafture a yellow dye from the common curled hobenoider with yellow leaves and plates (6). He adds, that it is celebrated medicine in the diem of the coatttr7 people, es afpecifm in the jatindice (7). Behr/logics, in the Supplement to the Nora Prtsfirs, ffirms, that this mod will tinge paper and linen of a lively camation colour, wltich too will fiand the telt of being expored to tbe open fun for a long time without fading. It kerns very prohable, however,that he molt mean foam other plant of this gcnus, as Dillenius tells us he made the experiment unfuccerr-
Smsden affords mob of din order, which, as
far as hitherto appean, feems to be unknown to former bounds, and which Linrtrus rays will dye deep purple colour (8).
The Castanet Dancers of Arsinoe Author(s) : W. L. Westermann Source: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Jul., 1924, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Jul., 1924), Pp. 134-144 Published By: Sage Publications, LTD