Gold from Newton's Apple Tree
Historical Recipes for Natural Inks, Paints, and Dyes
$72.31
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2026
Summary
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 was firmly established during the medieval era, recorded in manuscript…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691278216 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691278210 |
| Author: | Nabil Ali |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 1.23kg |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 214mm x 272mm |
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Critics Review
“Marvelous… . beautifully illustrated and handsomely produced, his volume is a rare meeting of scholarship and craftsmanship, joining a growing shelf of works on color… . But whereas almost everyone else thinks and writes about color, Ali actually makes it.”—Andrew Hui, Book Post
Nabil Ali
Nabil Ali is a visual research artist and visiting tutor at the University of Cambridge, who regularly consults with conservation scientists on organic dyes and paint. He has taught popular workshops at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, the Ferens Art Gallery, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, the University of Oxford, and elsewhere.
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