[Bonetools] colouring bones

[Selena Vitezović]

Dear Christian,

You are pure gold!!!
Thank you so much!

Best regards, Selena

On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, 5:42 pm Hans Christian Küchelmann, <
info at knochenarbeit.de> wrote:

> Dear Selena,
>
> the website you found is Astrid Dingeldey’s homepage. Astrid dyed bones
> brown with walnut shells (Juglans regia), dark red with roots of rose
> madder (Rubia tinctorum), orange with onion skin (Allium cepa) and
> turquoise with copper rust. You can see the results of the brown and
> turquoise dying here:
> https://knochenarbeit-shop.de/produkt/spielstein/ (click on the options
> on the right to see the different colours).
> I do not know the details of the recipe though, but you can contact Astrid
> via astrid.dingeldey at ars-asta.de. Her article (Jung & Dingeldey 2013) has
> already mentioned by others.
>
> Cordula Gostencnik (2014) published an article about Roman bone dying. See
> also the bonetool of the month form May 2017 (
> https://www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-the-month-archives/bonetool-archives-2017/).
> Striebel (2003) published a paper about early modern recipes. There is
> quite an amount of information about bone dying in Andés (1925) and
> possibly in Schmidt (1891). There is also a medieval text by a monk, whose
> name I do not recall completely (something with Theo…).
>
> Best wishes.
>
> Christian
>
> References:
> # Andés, Louis Edgar (1925): Verarbeitung des Hornes, Elfenbeins,
> Schildpatts, der Knochen und der Perlmutter, 3. Auflage,
> Chemisch-technische Bibliothek 117, Wien
>
> # Gostencnik, Kordula (2014): Nicht nur edles Weiß. Die Farbigkeit antiker
> Beinfunde an Beispielen vom Magdalensberg. – Carinthia I 204, 617-638
> online:
> https://www.academia.edu/10393523/Kordula_GOSTENCNIK_Nicht_nur_edles_Wei%C3%9F._Die_Farbigkeit_antiker_Beinfunde_an_Beispielen_vom_Magdalensberg._Carinthia_I_204_2014_617-638
>
> # Jung, Patrick & Dingeldey, Astrid (2013): Vom unbearbeiteten Material
> zum Endprodukt. in: Jung, Patrick (ed.): Die römischen Beinartefakte aus
> dem Gebiet der Colonia Ulpia Traiana (Xanten), Xantener Berichte 26, 17-39,
> Mainz
>
> # Schmidt, Wilhelm (1891): Das Beizen, Schleifen und Polieren des Holzes,
> Elfenbeins, Horns, der Knochen und Perlmutter, Neuer Schauplatz der Künste
> und Handwerke, 7. Auflage, Hannover
>
> # Striebel, Ernst (2003): Über das Färben von Holz, Horn und Bein. Das
> Augsburger Kunstbuechlin von 1535. – Restauro 6/2003, 424-430
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>
> Am 05.11.2019 um 22:21 schrieb Selena Vitezović <selenavitezovic at gmail.com
> >:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I need some help in finding references on deliberate colouring of bones.
> I clearly remember the WBRG meeting in Salzburg when Astrid Dingeldey had
> presentation on production of gaming pieces on lathe and she showed some
> coloured pieces and told us they were quite easily coloured. However, I can
> not find any reference on it. I found this page
> https://www.ars-asta.de/presse/ while searching for Ms Dingeldey on
> google, but no references here either, not even mention of this experiment.
> Help, please!
>
> best regards, Selena
>
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> dr Selena Vitezović
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