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RedSonGamble t1_j7rlrwt wrote

Blood is one of the nice color changing dyes

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[deleted] t1_j7ro0jx wrote

It’s not like he killed them to make the paint.

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redrosesparis11 t1_j7rn0rd wrote

Oookkk....ewww....and how did this get decided as a GOOD idea?

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SMIDSY t1_j7ro7pt wrote

Just wait until you find out about "mummy brown".

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Fairhillian t1_j7s46kw wrote

Indian yellow checking in and laughing.

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justinlongbranch t1_j7spspi wrote

Wikipedia tells me it was made from cows being fed mango leaves and the getting it from their pee. Not a big deal. But why did Google just tell me that when I googled what's Indian yellow made of? I had to scroll down 3 results to even get to Wikipedia.

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TheCloudFestival t1_j7vivby wrote

A personal hero of mine, the wildly eccentric C19th clergyman and archaeologist Reverend William Buckland, once accidentally ate the mummified heart of King Louis XIV at a dinner party where it was being passed around as a curio, and declared it 'disgusting, but better than owl.'

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poopeemoomoo t1_j7t38rv wrote

Mummy brown?

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GoGaslightYerself t1_j7tqc1b wrote

Transparent Mummy. Popular color for mixing skin tones in portraiture, along with "Lead White" (pigment is lead oxide) ... hard to get the actual, genuine items anymore.

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LOCKN355 t1_j7tmxn6 wrote

This is making me think of the film The Red Violin.

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