Ancient Art: Making earth pigments

WoodlandsTV went to the 2019 bushcraft show to see some of the amazing woodland craft that goes on around the world. Here Caroline Nicolay guides you through how to make your very own ancient earth pigment, explaining the cultural context behind each colour.

[adhamhmacconchobhair]

Thank you so much for showing the Celtic round houses!
I'm from Ireland and really want to live a tribal life like my ancestors!

[nunyabiznes]

The Egyptians eventually discovered how to make Egyptian Blue as they tried to make substitutes for lapis lazuli.

[Dumbunny]

This makes me want to travel lots of places and collect nature to create a colour palette and paint a bunch of pretty paintings

[tammcd]

Quite rare purple "ochre? roqua? or rock?" from the Forest of Dean. ??
Interesting video, btw.
EDIT: Found it! ""Clearwell Caves are still worked intermittently to produce coloured ochres for use as natural pigments. These are washed and milled for sale in the mine's own shop. A range of ochre colours are available, from golden yellow to English Reds. Clearwell is also known as one of the few locations where the rare purple ochre may be found.""

[sarahsanchez]

In Alabama there's lots of clay in the soil and iron in the rocks. I'm excited to see what I can make.

[eqlzr]

We do a fair amount of hiking and exploring in our area. Two days ago, we were driving our Jeep 4WD into an area where we had never been, and the neighborhood road led us further and further into the countryside until we got to a 4WD road which we took for a few miles and then got out and hiked down a rather flat dry wash. I began to see first a clump of pastel color here and then another color there, and finally quite a few clumps of significantly different colors. At least 10 different colors. We had stumbled on a concentration of natural pigment rocks. I was struck by the fact that they felt much lighter than any of the other pebbles and rocks in the stream bed, and also by the fact that they easily left a substantial colored chalk-like mark on harder stone. I retrieved quite a few of these pieces and will use them to produce some paints and pastel sticks soon. I have seen the occasional piece of stuff like this before at several other locations, but this new spot was a much heavier concentration.

[dlcrowley]

This reminds me of when my mother taught me to make mineral makeup. We mostly used micas for colour and shine but it's made very similarly.

[vivilavita]

that is super helpful, always wanted to do my own paints but thought it was harder o.o thank you so much, You have changed my life, now i can walk around and colect colors for my palette

[heronoverdose]

I'm glad to of found myself here, thank you for putting together.

[gemealvin]

I searched this because i was inspired by jonna jinton❤

[Goghahahahahaeej]

Why does this seems like she is talking to us from a pirate ship?

[joelthorman]

Awesome video, been watching how to vids for at least an hour, this is the one that has released me to experiment now I think!! Thank you

[Survve_Thrive]

Great subject. Excellent video production quality. Thank you very much et merci.

[lindareese]

Thank you young lady for sharing this with me..

[rhondaporro]

ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING!!! THANK YOU FOR SUCH INTERESTING CONTENT!

[violalalinor]

i love this idea! Im gonna start right away! <3

[Inara.Alferova]

Hello from Malvern!
Absolutely love this video, so informative!

[c.m.sharma]

Thank you very much Mam.
I am very glad to know
You are going with the Nature

[flowersafeheart]

Love Been loving learning about low-toxic and/or zero-VOC paints like milk paint, clay paint, chalk paint, Benjamin Moore, etc., and cool businesses that sell that stuff. Plus learning other aspects of DIY, green, nature-based, and low-toxic living. Earth pigments can be mixed with various things and I saw a company that sells them I think sources from mainly or only Europe? But this takes it a step further to make one's one locally!! (I bet the head scarf and clothes in this video are naturally died too. Looks like it!) Now to learn more about natural dyes (liquid dye is different than powder pigment), natural ink, more on natural food prep, more on natural building (cob is my current favorite plus compost toilets), etc.!

[hArtyTruffle]

You might like to know that you can mix blue from purple and green. Thanks for sharing. I’d never have thought to extract the fine particles like that in water and then let dry. So simple. Thankyou 🙏