Museum of natural colors (Lamoli)

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Submitted Oasis St. Benedict in Lamoli of Borgo Pace , the Museum of Natural Colors illustrating species of plants such as madder dye , reseda and ford plant it in the Renaissance period which represented an economic resource as important enough to be defined blue gold . The pigment dye woad was recently rediscovered and now after five centuries in which he had long forgotten the man back to use it in the colors of objects in different application areas : crafts , cosmetics, construction, textile and clothing .
The Museum offers a course on cognitive officials dyeing plants , their ancient use , the recent rediscovery and their contemporary and future use. In the cloister of the abbey is the place where you are exposed to archive documents and bibliographic herbarium with the technical- scientific on the main essences dry cleaners and a research and development laboratory for the extraction of plant pigments from flowers, berries, leaves and roots. In the area adjacent to the former monastery there are experimental crops of dyeing herbs , delivered to a location marked and cataloged and a greenhouse used as a classroom .
For more information:
Tel : 0722-80133
e- mail: lamoli@oasisanbenedetto.it
website: www.oasisanbenedetto.it/museo-dei-colori-2/