Researchers to examine the origins of the Maritime Silk Route

In medieval times, the blue and purple solutions extracted from C. tinctoria were stored, after adsorption onto cloth and drying, as watercolors (clothlets), and were applied as paint by cutting a piece of cloth and extracting its color with the appropriate binding medium.

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