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Dave Rylak
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posted 02-08-2003 10:17 PM

Can anyone provide information ( or suggestions as to where to find it) on coloring leather by dying, particularly in the 14th cent? My main interest being what colors may have been available using period dyes/dying techniques. I'm not averse to using modern dyes to achieve color, but I'm uncertain as to what the available pallet of colors would have been. Thanks in advance.

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Karen Larsdatter
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posted 02-10-2003 01:15 PM

Cennini's Libro dell' Arte (15th century) may have some references to leather-dyeing (or leather-staining), but I'd also look for Medieval and Renaissance Treatises on the Arts of Painting (translated by Mary P. Merrifield) for information on medieval leather-dyeing techniques.

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Dave Key
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posted 03-03-2003 07:24 AM

Rosetti, Gioanventura. The Plictho of Gioanventura Rosetti

Actually C16th but it contains quite a bit on the dyeing of leather (tanned and tawed)I have a copy but I got the following from a search on Goggle which gave me the following: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/dyelit.html

This has some other useful references.

Rosetti, Gioanventura. The Plictho of Gioanventura Rosetti: Instructions in the Art of the Dyers which Teaches the Dyeing of Woolen Cloths, Linens, Cottons, and Silk by the Great Art as Well as by the Common, trans. Sidney M. Edelstein and Hector C. Borghetty. Cambridge, Mass.: The M.I.T. Press, 1969.

First published in 1548 in Vienna, this is a detailed source with several recipes for many different colors. Emphasis is on reds and blacks. Also includes recipes for dyeing such things as leather, feathers, wood, etc.

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