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Weld

Colors & materials

A yellow dye from Reseda plants, bright on wool with mordant. Not saffron, and not woad.

Also known as Dyer's broom

  • Weld is used in Dye.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats weld and related yellow plant dyes among cloth colorants. A Roman-era dye use of the yellow weed, not orpiment as a mineral yellow and not a modern paint chip.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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