red ochre - set of 5 tubes of this natural pigment - the Rawlins Red

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Set of 5 tubes of red ochre, a natural iron oxide pigment used on the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge.
This is the Rawlins Red, which is embedded in the Flathead sandstone near Rawlins, Wyoming. It is slightly coarse, so if used as an artist's pigment, it will take a bit of effort to grind. This is not difficult if you have a mortar and pestle. Or we can mill it for you, see below. It is slightly brighter than the other red ochre that we offer.
This red ochre was used as a pigment in the initial painting of the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge. Currier & Ives made a number of lithographs around 1883 that show the bridge with Rawlins Red on the cables. We would be happy to send a jpeg of a detail from two of these early lithographs showing this use.
Red ochre forms from the weathering of hematite. It becomes earthy and powdered with advanced weathering. Because it was forming in an arid region, it was not leached or washed away from the original deposit of hematite. When used as a pigment it contains clay.
Artists! An artist customer milled some of our red ochre in his coffee grinder (!) and was happy with the result. He found it slightly redder. We are now milling ochre, so if you would like red ochre with a fine powder-like consistency and a slightly redder shade than what comes out of the ground, please request the artist's version. You can ask for some tubes milled, others not milled, to get a mixed set of 5 tubes. Just let us know how many of which type you want us to ship.
We also have yellow ochre. You can purchase it separately, or you can ask us to substitute yellow ochre for any number of the tubes of red.
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