08-16-2016, 03:03 PM
(08-16-2016, 02:10 PM)Dan D Wrote: Hello once more.
Can anyone point me to documentation about what kinds of dyes would be available in Central and Western Asia before the Hellenistic period?
I'm trying to choose some linen for more tunics that at least looks like it's the correct color, if not necessarily using natural dyes. I understand woad and walnuts are native to the area. But I found this rust-red "sedona" very interesting, so I want to know if it's plausible, perhaps by overdyeing red with brown or vice-versa.
I would have though looking at the vast amounts of Egyptian textiles would supply the answers you need for the region generally.... Madder was used so yes rust-red is in..
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
