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French association to promoted coloured earths |
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Terres et Couleurs booklets
(only available in french)
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The 'Cahiers de Terres et Couleurs' (Terres et Couleurs booklets) show a great diversity of topics :
technological, scientific, artistic, philosophical...
Through these mini-monographs, Terres et Couleurs (T&C) increases your knowledge of coloured earth and widely disseminates information.
T&C members are more than welcome to publish the fruit of their research or any idea they may want to share. |
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The ochres, how and where are they produced?
by Félicien Carli
All ochre marketed in France (26 earths from France, Italy and Cyprus). Where and how they are produced? You will discover the latest producing regions of these mineral and natural pigments, from Ardennes to Vaucluse, through Burgundy.
You will learn all about their composition, coloring capacity…
An address book and you can get them.
36 colour pages - 5,00 Euros |
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Ochres and earths, workshop secrets...
by Jean-Claude Pelletier
'Secret'... did you say 'secret' ?
You will be welcome to the workshop of a fresco painter, where you will
learn how to use coloured ochres and earths thanks to varied and sometimes rather
unexpected recipes...
It will then all be up to you! You'll most probably enjoy yourself testing all the recipes that Jean-Claude Pelletier has helped you discover...
32 colour pages - 5,00 Euros |
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The small illustrated guide to lime
by Félicien Carli
The most current pathologies (coating which falls apart or stains, colorwash which flours, not to mention walls that crackle...) together with the professional advice on how to tackle those snags. This 'Cahier' will enable you to carry out sumptuous decorations with lime. This small practical guide presents recipes telling you how to paint a wall or skim-coat it using lime or stucco.
An address book will help you find the lime and pigments you need.
And now, to your brushes and trowels!
48 color pages - 5,00 Euros |
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The small illustrated guide to coloured concretes
by Françoise Thouraud
This guide gives you advice on how to mix natural ochres with concrete. Your kitchen, your bathroom, your garden alleys...all these can be made out of coloured concrete. Coloured earth dynamises this material which is very easy to use and goes very well with wood, steel and glass.
Precise recipes and precious advice are given to you.
Do not hesitate to put concrete and ochres in your environment!
32 color pages - 5,00 Euros |
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Short illustrated guide to ceramics, slip
by Marie-Pierre Lamy
A guide: this time dedicated to slip fired at low temperature. The only pigments in this book are ochres and mineral colours wich have been used since prehistoric times, and now breaks away from the uniformity of artificial colours or standardized oxides.
You will discover a whole range of methods from neolithic times. You will also be able to try them out for yourself. There is also an address book to help you find the different ingredients.
40 colour pages - 5,00 Euros |
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The small illustrated guide about painting with ochre on wood
by Félicien Carli
A guide to discover the recipe of painting with ochre to protect the wood and make it imputrescible. A very simple recipe containning flour, linseed oil, ochre water. You heat the mixture and then let it cool. You will need to apply two coats ... and that's all. You wood will be protected for years against bad weather, rain or snow.
An ecological and economical solution still very much in use Scandinavian/Nordic countries. This recipe is bound to be a real succes in France as "local colors" are becoming the trend in our villages.
40 colour pages - 5,00 Euros |
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