It was indeed so similar to Armenian bole that some believed them both to be the same, or at least mixtures of each other.

Certain types of hematite or iron oxide rich clay, especially Armenian bole has been used in gilding.

Ruddy blond, Armenian bole, black patch, beer wig, gross build, episcopalian, any age.

Armenian bole, also known as bolus armenus or bole armoniac, is an earthy clay, usually red, native to Armenia.

The principal catagmatics were Armenian bole, gum tragacanth, osteocolla, Cyprus nuts, frankincense, aloes, and acacia.

Levant bole is an earthy clay brought from the Levant, and historically used in medicine for the same purposes as Armenian bole.

An example is Armenian bole, which is used to soothe an upset stomach, similar to the way parrots (and later, humans) in South America originally used it.

Send a detective to every art store in town to check on anyone buying Armenian bole, gesso, granulated gelatin, whiting, carpenter's hide glue, cheesecloth, extrafine sandpaper, chamois - ' 'You seem to have some experience.'

Those gilding on canvas and parchment also sometimes employed stiffly-beaten egg whites ("glair"), gum, and/ or Armenian bole as sizing, though egg whites and gum both become brittle over time, causing the gold leaf to crack and detach, and so honey was sometimes added to make them more flexible.

Armenian bole, also known as bolus armenus or bole armoniac, is an earthy clay, usually red, native to Armenia.

Armenian bole, also known as bolus armenus or bole armoniac, is an earthy clay, usually red, native to Armenia.

The other chief ingredients were red coral, bole armoniac, terra sigillata, myrrh, the santals, burnt hartshorn, camphor, sapphire, emerald, topaz, uranium, and most of the ingredients of the confection of alkermes.