Gold from Newton's Apple Tree

An exquisitely illustrated collection of historical guides to creating pigments from flowers and plants Flowering currant, ivy, Portuguese laurel, and woad might all have grown in a medieval garden, but it would have taken special expertise to extract and create rich blue and purple pigments from them. Humans have been extracting dyes and inks from natural materials for millennia, and the practice thrived during the medieval era, recorded in manuscripts that survive today. Gold from Newton’s App