*Sl6 Ut/iory of the Art of Dj'eing, 



ftuffsufed by the antients^ bcfides the purple fhell-fifh already 

 mentioned : 



1. Aluinen, alum. Pliny calls it an earthy fait, falfugo 

 terra. Some of it was white, and fome blackilh. The 

 former was ufed for bright, the latter for dark colours ♦. It 

 mufl not, however, be confounded with our alum, for the 

 antients were not acquainted with the art of lixiviating falls 

 and making them cryrtallife. This art was invented in the 

 twelfth century in the eaft, and therefore the antients com- 

 prehended under the name of falts all falinc bodies which 

 they found in diftri<Sls impregnated with falts f. 



2. Anchufa^ alkanet. It was ufed for giving the ground 

 to thofe ftufls which were to be dyed purplifli red J. The 

 ladies among the antients employed it, according to Suidas, 

 as a paint. 



3. The blood of birds was ufed by the Jews §. 



4. Coccum, kermes. Thofe obtained from Galatia and 

 Armenia were confidered by the antients as the bell ; the 

 next were thofe brought from the Aliatic provinces j the worit 

 were the Spanifli ||. 



5. Oak-leaves f. 



6. The fucus marinvs (a kind of fca-weed) . The Cretan 

 was the beil ; it was generally ufed for the ground of good 

 colours, and therefore the Romans afterwards gave the name 

 of fucus^*' to all colours whatever. It was ufed alfo as a 

 paint by the ladies. 



7. Ge7zi/la, dyer's broom, was alfo known to the antients ff. 



8. Hyac'mtb?is, the violet. The Gauls prepared from it a 

 dye which produced, a colour fimilar to the hyfginum^ before 

 ^efcribed JJ. 



* Piny, XXXV. 15. 



t Sec Be kman Comment, de H/JIoria Aluminis in the Commeniat, JiQVit^ 

 S cretiit. Reg. Gotti>tg. for the year 1778, p. m, 

 X Phny, xxii. 20. 



§ Braun de Veft. Sacerdotum, p. :^oo. 

 ;| Diofcoridcs, iv. 4S. 

 1^ Pliny, lib. xiii, i 



•* Ibid. XXV!. 10. xxxii. 6. 

 ^\ Ibid, xvl. iS. 

 it ItMv!. xxi. i6. 



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