Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-04-19 | Page 25 | Sources of Color

Sources of Color An interesting enumeration has been published In a technical journal of the sources of color Frorn this It appears that the cochineal Insects furnish the gorgeous carmine crimson scarletcar mine and purple lakes the cuttlefish gives sepia that t Is the Inky fluid which the fish discharges In order to render the water opaque when attacked the Indian yellow comes from the camel ivory chips produce the Ivory black and bone black the exquisite Prussian blue comes from fusing horse hoofs and other refuse animal matter malCl with impure I potassium carbonate various lakes are derived from roots barks and gums blue black comes from the charcoal of the vine stock Turkey red Is mnde from the mat cl plant which grows in Hindoostan the yellow sap r a Siamese tree produces gamboge raw sienna Is the natural earth from the neighborhood of Sienna Italy raw umber Is an earth found near Umbrla India Ink is made from burned camphor mastic Is made from the gum of the mastic tree which grows In I the Grecian archipelago bistre Is the soot of wood ashes very little real ultramarine obtained from the precious lapis lazuli Is found in the market