The words were carved with a stylus, some were written with brush and ink made of lampblack or cinnabar. On bronzes, inscriptions were cast on sacrificial vessels, ritual bells, and seals. These ...

With all due respect to winter, spring, and summer, autumn is the best season for fragrances. There’s something juuust right ...

Lampblack was the only black identified. Brilliant yellow, called Indian yellow (a calcium or magnesium salt of euzanthic acid), as an organic extract from cow urine. Vegetable dyestuff indigo was the ...

With this india-rubber solution is mixed whiting, sulphur, litharge, or white lead, calcined magnesia, lampblack, and clay, in the following proportions : Four pounds of rubber, two pounds of ...

Opinion: Anna Taylor’s claim to fame is that, in 1911, this Canadian woman patented the very first glue-on false eyelashes.

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Robb Report may receive an affiliate commission. With all due respect to winter, spring, and summer ...

Adleman’s daughter, Sarah, revealed in her 2019 memoir The Lampblack Blue of Memory: My Mother’s Echoes that she sent a ...

Some time after Burton, now 54, was sent to death row, Sarah sent him a letter she mentioned the existence of, but did not include, in her 2019 memoir, The Lampblack Blue of Memory: My Mother’s Echoes ...