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RedSonGamble t1_j7rlrwt wrote
Blood is one of the nice color changing dyes
redrosesparis11 t1_j7rn0rd wrote
Oookkk....ewww....and how did this get decided as a GOOD idea?
[deleted] t1_j7ro0jx wrote
It’s not like he killed them to make the paint.
SMIDSY t1_j7ro7pt wrote
Just wait until you find out about "mummy brown".
redrosesparis11 t1_j7rqfov wrote
Eeewwwww....
jackdhammer t1_j7rsgsc wrote
Mr_Abe_Froman t1_j7rvwfv wrote
It's in the article, even.
Fairhillian t1_j7s46kw wrote
Indian yellow checking in and laughing.
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.
poopeemoomoo t1_j7t38rv wrote
Mummy brown?
wheresmycowat t1_j7thc3c wrote
Paint made from ground up Egyptian mummy remains...yeah.
LOCKN355 t1_j7tmxn6 wrote
This is making me think of the film The Red Violin.
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.
poopeemoomoo t1_j7uaw4i wrote
Did you read the article? It is mummy brown.
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.'
Still_kinda_hungry t1_j7rlf1z wrote
Something Crayola doesn't have the balls to do anymore.