The Ten Books on Architecture, 7.10.4

Vitruvius  translated by Joseph Gwilt

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4A black colour, not less pleasing, is made by drying and burning lees of wine in a furnace, and grinding the result with size. Indeed, this makes a very agreeable black. The better the wine whose lees are used, the better will be the black colour; which will, in such case, approach the colour of indigo.

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