{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "vermilion",
 "type": "ink",
 "names": {
  "name": "Vermilion",
  "th": "ชาด",
  "said": "Red mercury sulphide, for charms, and it fades"
 },
 "region": [
  "mainland-southeast-asia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "colour": "red"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Cinnabar red, diluted, mixed with herbs and other things, and used for charms rather than for the standing marks.",
  "story": "Shway Yoe: all the more important charms are reserved for other parts of the body and executed in vermilion. The *a-nu se*, the drug of tenderness, is vermilion mixed with herbs and the dried skin of the *tokay* gecko; a few dots in a triangle between the eyes are enough.\n\nIt fades — everybody says so — and a fading charm gets redone.\n\n*Attested —* the mercury in cinnabar is toxic. The sources this site quotes do not raise that, and it is not offered here as advice about anything; it is a fact about the pigment named in them."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "สีแดงชาด เจือจาง ผสมสมุนไพรและของอื่น ใช้กับเครื่องราง ไม่ใช่กับลายประจำตัว",
  "story": "เชวโยเขียนว่า เครื่องรางสำคัญกว่านั้นสงวนไว้สำหรับส่วนอื่นของร่างกายและลงด้วยสีชาด และมันจางไป เครื่องรางที่จางก็ลงใหม่"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "lampblack",
   "as": "The colour that stays.",
   "rel": "ink"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:shway-yoe",
  "s:wp-cinnabar",
  "s:wp-vermilion",
  "s:wp-tattooing-in-myanmar"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:shway-yoe"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "tags": [
  "lanna",
  "protective"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "htoe-kwin",
   "type": "tradition",
   "name": "Htoe kwin",
   "as": "The other colour: charms, in red, which fade."
  },
  {
   "from": "lampblack",
   "type": "ink",
   "name": "Lampblack",
   "as": "The other colour, and the one that fades on purpose."
  }
 ]
}