Tag: LA VOILE ROUGE

Georgij Aleksandrovic Lapsin, Red Sails 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #180

Jun 27, 2019

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Zaidan Art Blog

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The typical, rusty-red colour of the flax sails was due to the dressing used to treat the sails that were permanently aloft, traditionally made from red ochre, cod oil, urine and seawater. The red ochre was there to block the ultra-violet in the sunlight from degrading the sails (much as lamp-black was used in the…