05-09-2013, 02:12 AM
Hello Crispvs,
Would you happen to have a picture of your blue scabbard color?
I was also thinking that maybe a nice deep green could also be a viable color. One could dip the woad colored leather into a saffron. However, given ow expensive saffron was/is, it would be an unlikely thing.
I wonder what was uwed for green as a natural dye.
I think that one of the mostly overlooked possibilities is that leather could have been painted. They painted everything else they could. I mean, really, why paint a marble statue. There was nothing else that could make a good enough surface for painting?
I know...I know.....the evidence. However, how far of a stretch is it to consider that a society that painted stone for iluustration, propaganda and art, would not paint other objects to show off.
Would you happen to have a picture of your blue scabbard color?
I was also thinking that maybe a nice deep green could also be a viable color. One could dip the woad colored leather into a saffron. However, given ow expensive saffron was/is, it would be an unlikely thing.
I wonder what was uwed for green as a natural dye.
I think that one of the mostly overlooked possibilities is that leather could have been painted. They painted everything else they could. I mean, really, why paint a marble statue. There was nothing else that could make a good enough surface for painting?
I know...I know.....the evidence. However, how far of a stretch is it to consider that a society that painted stone for iluustration, propaganda and art, would not paint other objects to show off.
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