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Plants, fish and a landscape from the East Indies, including pepper, cocoa, indigo and coffee plants. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1706.
Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727.Date: [1718]Reference: 20209i- Pictures
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Mattipaul (Ailanthus malabarica DC.): branch with flowers and fruits, separate flowers and seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16108i- Pictures
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Tumeric (Curcuma longa L.): rhizome with flowering stem and separate leaf and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 17957i- Pictures
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A flowering marvel of Peru plant (Mirabilis jalapa) and nine diagrams illustrating refraction of light. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1817.
Date: [1817]Reference: 25520i- Pictures
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Ketaki (Pandanus tectorius Sol. ex Parkinson): tree bearing flowers and fruit. Coloured lithograph, 1812, after J. Forbes, 1780.
Forbes, James, 1749-1819.Date: [1st June 1813]Reference: 20099i- Pictures
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Garden Gardinia or Cape jasmine (Gardenia augusta (L.) Merr.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flowers and fruit. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16263i- Pictures
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Bastard Teak or Flame of the Forest (Butea monosperma (Lam.) Kuntze): leaf cluster, inflorescence and dissected flower. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16111i- Pictures
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Indian Snakeroot or Java Devilpepper (Rauvolfia serpentina (L.) Kurz): flowering and fruiting branches, root, inflorescence and sectioned fruit with seeds. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16261i- Pictures
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Dyer's rocket (Reseda luteola): flowering stem, root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1796.
Sowerby, James, 1757-1822.Date: 1 May 1796Reference: 25082i- Digital Images
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Xanthorhiza simplicissima Marshall Ranunculaceae. Yellow root. Distribution: North America, where it was discovered by the plant collector and explorer William Bartram in 1773. Austin (2004) reports that of the Native Americans, the Cherokee use the crushed plant to make a yellow dye
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
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Three British wild flowers, including hedge mustard (Sisymbrium officinale) and woad (Isatis tinctoria). Coloured lithograph, c. 1846, after H. Humphreys.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.Date: [1846]Reference: 24628i- Pictures
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Six British wild flowers, four types of bedstraw (Galium species), squinancywort (Asperula cynanchica) and levant (Rubia peregrina). Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, after H. Humphreys.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.Date: [1856]Reference: 24642i- Books
Pocket guide to natural dyeing - a foldable print out file. Mini ebook about soy milk, mordants and plant dyes with basic info and recipes
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Xanthorhiza simplicissima Marshall Ranunculaceae. Yellow root. Distribution: North America, where it was discovered by the plant collector and explorer William Bartram in 1773. Yellow-root. Austin (2004) reports that of the Native Americans, the Cherokee use the crushed plant to make a yellow dye
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
Fifty plants that changed the course of history / written by Bill Laws.
Laws, BillDate: c2010- Archives and manuscripts
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Miscellanea Alchemica XXV
Date: c.1525-c.1600Reference: MS.525- Pictures
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Bastard alkanet plant (Lithospermum arvense) with an associated beetle, its larva and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
Date: 1 November 1830Reference: 24171i- Pictures
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Castor oil plant (Ricinus communis): flowering and fruiting stem, leaf and fruit sections. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.
Burnett, M. A., active 1850.Date: [1847]Reference: 23822i- Books
Slow Grown: Plants, Folklore and Natural Dyeing
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A plantation of cochineal cacti (Nopalea cochenillifera) with workers gathering and preparing cochineal. Engraving.
Reference: 25317i- Pictures
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Cotton tree (Gossypium herbaceum): flower, fruits and seed. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
Burnett, M. A., active 1850.Date: [1853]Reference: 23990i- Digital Images
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Reseda lutea L. Resedaceae Wild Mignonette. Dyers Rocket. Herbaceous plant. Distribution: Eurasia and North Africa. This plant, and in particular R. luteola, is the source of 'weld' a yellow dye from luteolin a flavonoid in the sap. It is said to have been used since the first millennium BC, but curiously Dioscorides, Lyte, Gerard, Lobel, Fuchs, Coles, Quincy, Linnaeus (1782) either do not mention it or make it synonymous with Eruca, Rocket, and make no reference to it as a dye source. The name Resedo means 'I sit up' in Latin, which Stearn (1994) interprets as 'I heal' which makes its absence even more strange. It is noted as the dye source by Bentley (1861). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
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Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus, De agricultura [Book I-Book XI, Chapter 11]
Palladius, Rutilius Taurus AemilianusDate: Middle 15th centuryReference: MS.590- Digital Images
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Bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) skeleton
Lauren Holden- Digital Images
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Dianella tasmanica Hook.f. Phormiaceae Tasman flax lily. Distribution: Australia. A pretty plant, but also a source of fine fibre. The leaves are used for making baskets and the berries as a dye source. No medicinal use found, but the fruit is an irritant
Dr Henry Oakeley