Aniline Black -- Solnit Base (Sock) undead Andrews' If There Be Thorns

Andrews' If There Be Thorns

Varney the Vampyre (night

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Aniline Black -- Solnit Base (Sock) undead Andrews' If There Be ThornsA deep violet black that takes its name from a pioneering synthetic pigment used in printing and dyeing. In the 1860s Mr. J . Lightfoot brought us a blacker black after studying the oxidation of new compound, aniline. Aniline purple had been accidentally created a few decades earlier while student Willam H. Perkins was trying to synthesize quinine and that accidental discovery set off a giant Victorian wave of mauve everything. In this rich black