[Regia-NA] Dyeing leather - Mappae Clavicula

[Hazel Uzzell]

> 239 Take madder, pound it well and cook it in a cooking pot with urine.
> Add a little alum, mix them together, and allow them to cool. Then
> strain the broth and put it into the bladders made of skins that have
> already been processed, and agitate well and process them for a day, and
> wash and dry them. After this take 1 oz of weld broth and 1 oz of
> "lulax", mix them together, and coat the surface of the skins with them.
>
I wonder what colour you would get with this? I can see dyeing with madder, 
but then to coat the surface with weld and 'indigo' (green), you would get a 
sort of yukky brown, very odd.
Hazel 



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