"A Viking Age pallete" Topic

Don't know if it helps anyone, but I've been in-touch with with renowned dyer, handspinner and knitter Jenny Dean who has kindly agreed to let me share her experiments with Anglo-Saxon dyes, c. AD 450 – AD 1066, to create a convincing pallete:
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Thanks for the info. I'm the same boat as you so this gives me at least a base to work off of.

Very cool, thanks for posting this.

I note the use of lichens to produce purple. I wonder when that discovery was made. In particular, could the Romans have done something similar?

Also, I'm surprised there is no green. Couldn't they have combined the blue and yellow dyes to produce green? (Possibly by dying the fabric twice?)

JMD,

Thanks for the posting as this will be useful for my next medieval army.
I would like to read something similar covering the subject of leather and material used for colouring.

Cheers,

That is awesome, thank you for sharing.

Being colourblind, in particular red green troubles, I am pleased to be taking green out of the mix for viking army.

The purple is limited to particular areas of Britain and there's no indication if it was used in the Roman period, according to Jenny.

Green would have been created as you describe by dying yellow and then blue to create a Lincoln green, according to Jenny :)

Jenny Dean makes great sausage!

urm…dare i ask how you know? :)

Couldn't they have combined the blue and yellow dyes to produce green?

<q?Green would have been created as you describe by dying yellow and then blue to create a Lincoln green, according to Jenny :)

To some degree, but mixing natural dyes doesn't always render colors the same way mixing modern paints does.

Thanks for putting this up, and it links in with my posting about 4 or 5 below this one about whether Vikings wore much purple.