COLORS: NATURAL DYES AND PIGMENTS
Key words: Natural dyes, dye plants, historic dyes and pigments, laking, minerals, crystals, Maya blue, Indigo, traditional knowledge, immaterial cultural heritage, site specific and personal materials, sustainable art materials, uniqueness |
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Site specific, unique, and personal |
"Woad Maya blue, Biel/Bienne, June 2012". My first "Maya blue", based on indigo from woad, grown in my garden in Biel/Bienne, and palygorskite (by Kremer-Pigmente). It seems a bit more grey greenish, than the Maya blue samples commercially available.
I have to see the color change with different binders and painting technics so. |
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Lakes |
"purple lake 1"
Anke Zürn,
January 2013. Lake pigment based on a natural dye and a clay mineral. |
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Dye plants and their use - a cultural heritage to keep alive
Indigofera specie and woad (Isatis tinctoria). Botanical Garden, Univierity of Zürich.
Photo: Anke Zürn, 2011
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Public presentations / invited talks: |
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Invited talk “Indigo“
Conference: “Definieren Materialisieren, Archivieren“, 4-5 October 2012
Lucerne University of Applied Science and Art, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Invited talk: „Farbstoffe“ (dyes)
Tag der Chemie, June 2011, University Irchel, Zurich, in the framework of the International Year of Chemistry 2011, Zurich, Switzerland. |
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