ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ORCHIL
From Old French orcheil, of uncertain origin.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORCHIL»
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1
Lichen Dyes: The New Source Book
CHART 1: ORCHIL AND MUREX COMBINATIONS How orchil was used in
murex dyeing Sources* orchil used to duplicate murex Papyrus Hotmiensis 3rd
century A.D. orchil used to duplicate murex Plictho 1548 (Roserti) orchil used to ...
Karen Diadick Casselman, Karen Leigh Casselman, 2001
2
Lichens for Vegetable Dyeing
CHAPTER V EXTRACTING THE ORCHIL DYES Orchil is obtained by fermenting
lichen with ammonia, water and oxygen in a warm atmostphere. Use the back of
boilers, stoves, radiators or airing-cupboards, where the maceration can be ...
3
The elements of materia medica and therapeutics
Orchil-liquor. — Cudbear. 87 slightly reddened by an acid. Blue litmus paper may
be extemporaneously reddened by exposing it for a few seconds to the vapour of
acetic acid ; but for preserving, it is better to prepare the paper with litmus ...
The mountains of Cape Verde yielded one important product – a lichen known as
urzella, or orchil (Litmus roccella), which could be turned into a blue dye.
Together with indigo it was used to colour cloth (see page 40). To make orchil
dye, ...
Aisling Irwin, Colum Wilson, 2011
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Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments
Mercury sulfides group; Chrome yellow; Field's orange vermilion; Vermilion Field
(1835) 93–94; Martel (1860) 29 ORCEIN Blue-Purple Generic compound Orcein
is the principal colouring component found in orchil (q.v.). Treatment of the ...
Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, 2007
Mercury sulfides group; Chrome yellow; Field's orange vermilion; Vermilion Field
(1835) 93–94; Martel (1860) 29 ORCEIN Blue-Purple Generic compound Orcein
is the principal colouring component found in orchil (q.v.). Treatment of the ...
Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, 2008
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Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary and Optical Microscopy of ...
Mercury sulfides group; Chrome yellow; Field's orange vermilion; Vermilion Field
(1835) 93–94; Martel (1860) 29 ORCEIN Blue-Purple Generic compound Orcein
is the principal colouring component found in orchil (q.v.). Treatment of the ...
Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, 2008
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Natural Products from Plants
This red lichen dye was imported to Europe about 1300 A.D. by a Florentine
merchant named Frederigo Orcelli, whose name was later given to the dye
substance, orchil, and slightly altered, to the genus of lichens used, Roccella. For
200 ...
Leland J. Cseke, Peter B. Kaufman, Sara Warber, 1998
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A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India
6 Orchil. (Dagger. 338 Perelle. 339 Economic Properties of Lichens. acid it is
converted into sugar.— Starch also occurs though rarely in large lenticular grains
scattered through the tissues. Chloroph ll exists in small quantities only as do the
...
10
Knight's Penny Magazine
Orchil or Archil.—-This dye-drug might perha s about as fittingly be classed
among the reds as he blues; since it is employed for tints in which both of those
are combined, such as violet and lilac. The plant itself is a whitish lichen, called
by the ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ORCHIL»
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A colourful history of progress
For example, most red dyes were derived from plants such as madder, beetroot, cranberry, safflower, and orchil; and a few more valuable ones ... «Spiked, Nov 14»
Rich History
... Edwardian ballroom, as well as a number of other similarly well-preserved spaces, such as the atmospheric Cellars or intimate Orchil. But the ... «Successful Meetings, May 14»
View to Ochil - why George and Lesley Mailer transformed their …
Dalfruan is off Orchil Road, on the outskirts of Auchterarder and a mile from Gleneagles Hotel, and was built in 1969 as a chalet bungalow. «Scotland on Sunday, Nov 12»
Interiors: Andy and Norman Cameron's Auchterarder home
Rather than buying a plot, the Camerons purchased an existing bungalow on Orchil Road in the Perthshire town of Auchterarder back in 2006, ... «Scotland on Sunday, Oct 12»
PR: Beric gets back on track at Wakefield
Fusainization orchil paramo trigraph, pitfall clickstream nonpositive slangwhang gonadotrope. Teleview epilepsy galactotherapy sponsible ... «V8Central, May 05»
