Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c9.2

c9.2

IN medieval India pigments were obtained from minerals and ochres, and from their admixtures different shades were obtained. There were a few vegetable colours, such as indigo, and a few other colours, such as lac-dye and carmine obtained from insects. On the whole, the colours used by Western Indian painters may be divided into two classes. The natural pigments comprise certain elements, compound minerals, and vegetable extracts; and the artificial pigments, all manufactured salts and the pigments owing their colours to vegetable or insect dyestuff.