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Antimony black: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stibnite#/media/File:Antimonit_02.jpg
Azurite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Azurite,_Burra_Mine,_South_Australia.jpg
Calcium-based white: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Calcite#/media/File:Calcite_sample.JPG
Carbon black: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soot,_roet.jpg
Cinnabar: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Cinabro_-_Amiata%2C_Toscana%2C_Italia_04.jpg
Copper sulphate: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brochantite-165051.jpg
Earth pigments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_earth_pigment#/media/File:AboriginalOchrePitCentralAustralia.JPG
Egg glair: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Egg_white#/media/File:Chicken_egg01_monovular.jpg
Egg yolk: https://pixabay.com/en/egg-food-egg-yolk-756968/
Green earth: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Glauconite#/media/File:Glauconietzand.jpg
Gum Arabic: https://pixabay.com/en/gum-arabic-acacia-resin-binder-763043/
Gypsum: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soufre%26gypse_sicile.jpg
Indigo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_dye#/media/File:Indian_indigo_dye_lump.jpg
Iron-gall ink: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oak_marble_galls_1.JPG?uselang=en-gb
Lead-oxide yellow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_oxide#/media/File:Oxid_olovnat%C3%BD.JPG
_oxide#/media/File:Oxid_olovnat%C3%BD.JPG){kind=link}
Malachite: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malachite_Katanga_ROM.jpg
Minium: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Minium-232908.jpg
Organic red colourants: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Naturally_dyed_skeins.jpg
Organic yellow colourants: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Reseda_luteola_La_Palma1.jpg
Realgar and Pararealgar: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Realgar_%26_pararealgar_%26_calcite_on_marble_(Middle_Eocene_mineralization,_39_Ma;_Getchell_Mine,_northern_Osgood_Mountains,_northern_Nevada,_USA)_1_(18719248190).jpg
_1_(18719248190).jpg){kind=link}
Ultramarine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapis_lazuli#/media/File:Lapis-lazuli_hg.jpg
Verdigris: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Verdigris.JPG
Woad: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Isatis_tinctoria02.JPG
