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IT IS FIRE AND BLOOD LOVE AND HELL With it, things are clear. Despite the sober blue, red is a proud colour , full of ambition and hunger of power, a colour who wants to be seen and that is determined to emerge among all the others. In spite of …

  THE MOST COMMONLY USED NATURAL COLORS./2 WOAD, INDIGO, MUREX, MADDER. Natural products from the respective territories were used as raw materials for the dyes. Red was the first color, and as we have seen it was obtained first from ochre, and then from madder, a plant common in the …

  MADDLER Hercaceous plant, originally from western Asia, containg dye substances in its roots and undergraound stems, the most important being red alzarin. In antiquity its pulverized roots were traded under the name “madder” and used to dye yarn and fabric red. Introduced in Europe, where its cultivation spread rapidly, …

  TRACES OF DYE IN ARCHEOLOGICAL FINDS./2 MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE. With colors – especially the colors we wear – people have always expressed much more than a simple choice of taste and decoration. Taste and decoration reflect customs and beliefs, in terms of religious meaning and economic standing. The color …

Baskets were also important for the Navajo tribe, but for a wedding only one basket was required, which is part of the ceremony and not the dowry. It is a deep bowl achieved with a spiral technique with red, black and the natural colours of the vegetation as the base. …