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Blogposts

June 14, 2024
On Mordants of Splendor 

Using three recipes from De diffirentia exaurationis in order to mordant and adhere gold leaf to different surfaces.

Nov 1, 2023
Hands-On With Textile Mordants: More Than Meets the Eye

Using plant-derived and metal based mordants for dyeing textiles with weld dye stuff.

May 9, 2022
Making Scents of the Past (eng)
Making Scents of the Past (nl) Vervlogen geuren distilleren in het KunstLab

Made in collaboration between Het Geheugen van Geur and DURARE to reconstruct a seventeenth-century scent based on Constantijn Huygens’ ‘fragrant water’ recipes.