colormaking

Like all other aspects of production, colormaking is technique-dependent; for every kind of object only certain colors can made "good enough."

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

The economic benefits of a limited palette demonstrated in colormaking practices — notably textile dyeing and printing, and enamel painting — would thus be extended further.

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If Mauclerc had no constant experience with colormaking, how can he know better than one for whom colormaking is a life's work?

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

The close relationship of materials, techniques, and skills in colormaking had a decided effect on new materials and new processes devised in the eighteenth century; understanding this relationship also explains some common eighteenth-century vocabulary about color itself.

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The fundamental concept, that a limited number of colors could be used to make all others, had existed in colormaking practices before Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, and other seventeenth-century scientists adopted it as an experimental example.

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How does one employ in colormaking practice the established theories of physics and chemistry?

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The data were rarely innovative, and the details provided could be far removed from local or current technical practices and beliefs, subject to the author's idiosyncratic interests as much as to the quantity and quality of information available. 21 The repetition of information among publications reinforced ideas about the nature of colors, but exclusive reliance on these publications as sources of inspiration in colormaking could work to the disadvantage of an eager inventor.

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Why did colors or colormaking techniques available in the eighteenth century need improvement?

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The instructions are compiled from other publications, including in Dossie's Handmaid to the Arts. Again, de Massoul's book contains instructions with enough detail to support confident discussion of differences among colormaking recipes and, perhaps, to convince readers to purchase pigments rather than make them at home. reference

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Whatever the source, and wherever its ultimate use, confirming the characteristics of a color or colormaking process — establishing how good this good color might be — was necessary before its recommendation or employment.

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