Aniline Black -- Solnit Base (Sock) ghastly Brownies and Banshees

Brownies and Banshees

Base: Ursula (Sock)  70% Merino

Base: Carson (DK) 100% Superwash Merino Wool

Victor Frankenstein

Clive Barker (1984⁠-85)

Aniline Black -- Solnit Base (Sock) ghastly Brownies and BansheesA deep violet black that takes its name from a pioneering synthetic pigment used in printing and dyeing. In the 1860s Mr. J . Lightfoot brought us a blacker black after studying the oxidation of new compound, aniline. Aniline purple had been accidentally created a few decades earlier while student Willam H. Perkins was trying to synthesize quinine and that accidental discovery set off a giant Victorian wave of mauve everything. In this rich black