Plant as dyes
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Title
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Plant as dyes
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Rights
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Creative Commons/Media and Images are property of the Warrington Museum
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Type
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Physical object
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Creator
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Annonymous
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Date
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2600 BC
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Description
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Natural dyes have been used by our ancestors for thousands of years to colour fibres, fabrics, and other materials. Throughout history plants, insects, and minerals were used to create a variety of colours. There are different types of dyes like; mineral, vegetable and animal which are all made in different ways. A few of them that are found in the museum are stated below. Wall lichen is a mineral dye, that is found on rocvks of the sea coast and gives a yellow brown dye. Safflower is a rose colour which is obtatined from flowers in india and used as a dye. Another dye Indigo which give a blue colour and is is extracted from the leaves of the indigo plant which is a shrub that grows wild and is cultivated in tropical areas.
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Format
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Image
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Place
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Currently on display at Warrington Museum
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Publisher
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Warrington Museum
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Rights Holder
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Warrington Mueseum
