Madder Lake
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Name: Emilie Foyer and Ana Estrades
Date and Time:
2015.10.08, 3:05pm
Location: Chandler - Making and Knowing LabSubject: Madder Lake extraction of Sample D
3:05pm- Placed Jar of Madder root (Sample D - 10x the original recipe - 20g) in a tin bowl to heat in water bath
4:52pm Finally reached 70C. Because of length of heating, very dark. Took Jar out and filtered into beaker
Added 10g of Potash Alum
-- Heated to 80C
Prepared solution of potassium Carbonate
17:08 after 80C is reacher, the Madder + potash alum is poured into alkaline solution
PH at 6-7.
Name: Emilie Foyer and Naomi Rozenkranz
Date and Time:
2015.10.12, 12:06pm
Location: Chandler - Making and Knowing LabSubject: filtering of Madder Lake
12:06 - filtered madder lake
12:25 - to reduce filtering time, started a second batch (D2)
13:30 - Created Sample (D3) for extra filtration
Transferred liquid and pigment from D1 and D2
Name: Emilie Foyer
Date and Time:
2015.10.13, 15:30pm
Location: Chandler - Making and Knowing LabSubject: Washing Madder Lake
15:30 - first washing - Clear water
15:40 - second washing just to check - clear water
set to dry
Name: Emilie Foyer
Date and Time:
2015.10.14, 16:00pm
Location: Chandler - Making and Knowing LabSubject: Grinding the pigment
4:00 pm - collected and ground the lake pigment
Yield is 3.8g
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