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Cuddles McKitten	Green paint/dye/pigment/etc.	Lead	[-]
Posts: 101 (04/22/09 5:58 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Does anyone know how primitive people used to color things green? I've been thinking about this recently, and it's bothering me that I can't figure out an adequate answer!
Mister Owl		#1	[-]
Posts: 858 (04/22/09 6:09 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ground malachite and other minerals containing copper for one. Teach a man to make fire and he'll be warm for the night. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Quillsnkiko		#2	[-]
Posts: 2048 (04/22/09 8:39 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	hmmm....... seems Ive read something about duck poop as well...... bile from a gall bladder stains things green..Ive no idea how permanent it is. " You can't stop the waves .... but, you can learn to surf."
eskimoboy		#3	[-]
Posts: 4088 (04/23/09 1:51 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Maybe just green grass?
Lobo69ss.primalfires		#4	[-]
Posts: 21 (04/24/09 6:21 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	From what I`ve been told & seen, you might not want to use duck poop for green, I believe that that`ll give you more of a blue color than green, but then again, maybe it depends on the species of duck that you`re following around the pond ...... The man who sees the world the same @ 50 as he did @ 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
spoons		#5	[-]
Posts: 60 (04/25/09 4:55 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	In europe / asia they used woad/ indigo for blue then over dyed with yellow for green japan used a member of the smartweed family for blue. yellow is the easiest color to come up with as most all plants will give a yellow regardless of their colors. the blues are harder to get . go to Dover look for Adrosko dye books. On the advice of the MRS. with 40 years of natural dyes behind her. Cant get her to post!
mizfi7		#6	[-]
Posts: 85 (04/26/09 6:25 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Look in the uses section of this link. this plant makes yellow and green dye. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbascum_thapsus
mizfi7		#7	[-]
Posts: 86 (04/26/09 6:32 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I did a quick google search and here is a good link. http://www.pioneerthinking.com/naturaldyes.html
weaselbear5		#8	[-]
Posts: 198 (04/26/09 6:53 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	last year i used maple leaves and just rubbed them into my sons atlatl...it worked good till it got wet...
spoons		#9	[-]
Posts: 62 (04/26/09 4:22 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Once tried to stain a maple gun stock with walnut hulls and feris oxide got the brightest green out of it, dont think it will work on any thing but maple wood that way. A chunk of pine board came out looking like walnut. Mister Owl is bang on though with copper and ground malachite.
Twisted Cord		#10	[-]
Posts: 12 (04/26/09 5:10 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I got a green powder from rubbing green lichen on a rock.
Mmeso		#11	[-]
Posts: 181 (04/27/09 10:15 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	This is from a book published in 1835 with lots of info on pigments: "SAP GREEN or Verde Vessie is a vegetal pigment prepared from the juice of the berries of the buckthorn the green leaves of the woad &c It is usually preserved in bladders and is thence sometimes called Bladder Green when good it is of a dark colour and glossy fracture extremely transparent and of a fine natural green colour Though much employed as a water colour without gum which it contains naturally it is a very imperfect pigment disposed to attract the moisture of the atmosphere and to mildew and having little durability in water colour painting and less in oil it is not eligible in the one and is totally useless in the other Similar pigments prepared from coffee berries and called Venetian and emerald greens are of a colder colour very fugitive and equally defective as pigments." Chromatography, or, A treatise on colours and pigments, and of their powers http://books.google.com/b...d=NBMFAAAAYAAJ&hl=fi

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