General Research Notes
During the course of the research that I'm conducting, I've come across several different terms and expressions within original source text(s) that I've had to look up. As times change,…
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Dying Leather Blue
The Secretes of the Reverende Maister Alexis of Piemount1 contains a formula for dying leather a very blue color using an elderberry mixture. Though an alternate translation2 is available, my…
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The Secretes of the Reverende Maister Alexis of Piemount1 contains a formula for dying leather a scarlet red color using a mixture of crab shell ashes, madder and ochre. Though…
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Original Treatises on the Arts of Painting1 contains a formula for creating black ink that I found very interesting and is relevant to the creation of the formula that I…
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Hardening with wax was not altogether unheard of in period, but using it on a widespread basis may not have been as popular as it is in the SCA or…
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