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Madder lake (Alizarin)


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Source of Madder lake (Alizarin):

Madder is a dye that is made into a pigmented by "laking" it - binding it to a white powder.


Drawing of the madder plant, and harvesting madder root

Madder (rubia tinctorum L.) (at University of Bristol, UK)