Black
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An encyclopedia article on the color black from Rees's Cyclopedia. It covers black dyeing of cloth and hats with galls and iron vitriol (copperas), the woad and indigo ground used on broadcloth, and Jesuit's or coal black. It also gives an Elizabethan statute on maddering black and notes on logwood, silver and lead blacks, and pigment blacks (earth, German or Frankfort, hartshorn and ivory black).
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1771
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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