[Steppes] Horse Blood Used For Dye?

[Danny Scott]

Sounds like propaganda to me.  My gums never turned purple from eating horse.

--Giles the Mad


On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:01:54 -0600, Susan Hill <sueorintx at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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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