What are the dyes that do stained paper cutting?
Dyes are substances that make fibers and other materials colored, divided into natural and synthetic categories. Dyes are colored. But the color of the material is not necessarily a dye. Dye is able to make a certain color attached to the fiber on the material, and easy to fall off, discoloration. Dyes are usually dissolved in water, and some dyes require mordant to allow the dye to adhere to the fibers. Archaeological data show that dyeing technology in India and the Middle East has more than five thousand years of history. At that time the dyes from the flora and fauna or minerals, rarely treated.
Dyeing the stained paper is a Chinese painting pigment.
The traditional Chinese painting pigments, which are generally divided into two categories of mineral pigments and plant pigments, from the use of history, should first have minerals, after plants, like ink first smoke, after the smoke. Ancient rock paintings on the left behind the bright color, according to the test, found that the use of mineral pigments (such as cinnabar), mineral pigments is a significant feature is not easy to fade, colorful, read Zhang Daqian years of painting most of this impression , A large area of stone green, stone green, cinnabar can make people lifted! Plant pigments are mainly extracted from the trees and flowers.
