[Steppes] Horse Blood Used For Dye?

[Susan Hill]

Being that we have several people in and around the Steppes who have made a 
study of period colors and dyes and none of them have heard of the practice, 
I suspect that this was either a very local practice or that this is some 
sort of urban legend that has been passed down for a while. I don't think 
that there is anything in horse's blood that makes it particularly unique, 
myself. Being that many of our modern serums, antivenins, vaccines, and the 
like are made from the antibodies made by injecting horses with the 
substances and then making the serums from an extract of the horse's blood, 
I really can't imagine that it has any different qualities than our own 
blood. It would be the hemoglobin that carries the iron that would be most 
likely to act as a dye or a mordant, and that is essentially the same in all 
mammals, to the best of my knowledge.

Linet

----Original Message Follows----
From: Ashia Yother <ashia.yother at gmail.com>
Reply-To: Ashia Yother <ashia.yother at gmail.com>
To: steppes at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Steppes] Horse Blood Used For Dye?
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:09:08 -0600

I just want to clarify a couple of points here:

1.  The organization that I found this on is not claiming that the
practice in question is done in modern day.

2. I am not trying to get any political or animal rights conversation
involved here.  Whatever your opinions on cruelty to animals are not
what I am asking for here.  (if that was the case I think we all know
where I stand.)

I found it curious and an interesting note that is why I posted it
here.  I have e-mailed the organization, which happens to the be
Iberian Horse Registry, to see where they found the information that
they are supplying to those reading the pages.

Thanks everyone!


On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:45:26 -0600, Elaine Crittenden
<letebts at earthlink.net> wrote:
 > Back in my mundane---'scuse me---"modern" days of being a gallery artist, 
I
 > remember reading about a famous, Spain-Spanish, modern matador's using 
the
 > blood of the bulls he killed in the ring for pen drawings he did of the
 > bulls. I saw the reddish brown drawings accompanying the article. He had
 > extraordinary talent in that field, too.
 >
 > The use of the blood for drawings may have been unusual (the reason the
 > article was written?), but the killing of the bull for an ancient game's
 > sport for that people and the use of the expensive bull's carcass to feed
 > their poor was not, whatever our personal opinions are, a different 
culture
 > and an ocean away.
 >
 > Lete
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Lady Allessandra di Giovanni
Steppes Equestrian Marhsall

MKA: Ashia Yother
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