Recently a found a book about the history colours written by Victoria Finlay. Its really a 'travel through the paintbox', as is the original title of the book. She explains in fascinating way the history of colours.
Then about month ago I found in a greenhouse the bulbs of the crocus (crocus sativus) where the original saffron comes from.. I immediately bought the bulbs and planted them..(rembering her story about saffron.)These crocus are different from the springcrocus. These crocus blossoms in autumn & only one day/morning!. The colour saffron comes from the 3 pistils of the flower, which gives the awesome colour of goldenyellows. Very costly because of the intense work to collect them, the short period of blossoming and very fragile flower.
I tried it, collected the s little red 'threads'...mixed them with water and Arabic gum..and there's the colour!
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