1st Answer:
Colour was very hard to produce because it took natural ingredients to make any color for clothing or anything else. For instance, to make the color red gold had to be used. because of this colour was very basic. Black, brown, some blue for clothing and stain glass had a full range of colors from greens to reds.
2nd Answer:
This is a complicated issue because colors were used for many purposes, produced in many different way depending on use, and there were many ways to apply them. Just to give a few examples:
The colors used were all what we would call natural, but they ran pretty much the full spectrum. Red fabric, for example, was dyed with different natural materials, including animal, plant, and mineral products. Red dyes for clothing were often produced from the bodies of insects called kermes, that lived on oak trees. Examples of fabric dyed with this product date back to ancient times and exist from Anglo Saxon England. By contrast, when red glass is to be produced, gold(III) chloride is powered and put into the molten glass when it is manufactured. This production technique was used for stained glass in the Middle Ages, and probably dates from antiquity.
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Colors were pretty basic because they came from natural sources and there was no way to make artificial color. Laws were also passed that didn't allow the lower classes to wear certain colors or gems. Moreover the fact that hygiene was terrible, meant that their clothes were stained easily - this meant that many people's clothes were brown from waste.
There were many recipes for ink. One called for soot and a binder, such as a thin glue. Another was iron salts and tannin from natural sources, mixed with a binder. Yet other inks were made from vegetable stains.
There is a link below to the history section of an article on ink.
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In medieval times people used timber for building material, furniture, tools and equipment, machinery, and fire.
Hanging a person.
they used pigeons
Watermills
Green colors in glass came from iron. There is a link below.
Yes, roman numerals were used in medieval times.
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In medieval times people used timber for building material, furniture, tools and equipment, machinery, and fire.
The colors of the knights in Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament are based on the knight's region or kingdom. Each knight represents a different color, such as red and yellow for Spain, blue for France, green for England, and black and white for Germany. These colors are used to identify and cheer for the knights during the tournament.
In the medieval times, they used moats as a defence against intruders.
Knights
In medieval times they would have used certain herbs to help cure or help with the pain.
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Hanging a person.
they used pigeons