a Fadeless Colour Achievement Method in Violin Varnishing Tradition: Precipitation and Rubia Tinctorium

Abstract

The natural colorants were the primal materials used by the handcraft masters before the appearance of the industrial product coloring materials in the year of 1856 (Genç, 2014, p. 174). However; it is known that these materials which were used from the beginning of the stone age until the end of the 19 th century, valued the same as gold in antiquity and whose usage was explained in detail on the Egyptian cuneiform scripts lost their importance and popularity with the appearance of synthetic products (Erkan, et al., 2010, p. 2). In natural dying while there are animal and herbal resources which can give almost all the colors, some of the plants’ all parts, some others’ roots, leaves, shell, branches or offshoots are used (Şanlı, 2017, p. 772). One of these, rubia tinctorium , stands out as a herbal color resource whose offshoots were used in the past in order to obtain a special red color. The aim of this article is to share the practice steps applied to obtain a red colored pigment given a permanent/fadeless quality by means of a special precipitation method similar to the technique called mordanlama in Anatolia out of rubia tinctorium which is known to be a colorant used commonly until the industrial coloring’ becoming widespread in Italian products violin varnishing tradition in Europe. Abstract The natural colorants were the primal materials used by the handcraft masters before the appearance of the industrial product coloring materials in the year of 1856 (Genç, 2014, p. 174). However; it is known that these materials which were used from the beginning of the stone age until the end of the 19th century, valued the same as gold in antiquity and whose usage was explained in detail on the Egyptian cuneiform scripts lost their importance and popularity with the appearance of synthetic products (Erkan, et al., 2010, s. 2). In natural dying while there are animal and herbal resources which can give almost all the colors, some of the plants’ all parts, some others’ roots, leaves, shell, branches or offshoots are used (Şanlı, 2017, p. 772). One of these, rubia tinctorium , stands out as a herbal color resource whose offshoots were used in the past in order to obtain a special red color. The aim of this article is to share the practice steps applied to obtain a red colored pigment given a permanent/fadeless quality by means of a special precipitation method similar to the technique called mordanlama in Anatolia out of rubia tinctorium which is known to be a colorant used commonly until the industrial coloring’ becoming widespread in Italian products violin varnishing tradition in Europe. Organology is the the in terms of culture or structure. Syntagma , the second of of the work called De by Michael Praetorius th century) was effective in the of the name for this branch. De Vale defined three main fields as taxonomical, analytical and practical as an effort to organize the organology discipline. The taxonomical classifying musical analytical field not only analyses the sound but the studies on their cultural the old