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pigment

Finely ground colored material, made from natural substances (animal, vegetable or mineral) or chemical processes.  Web resource here.  See also bole, bone black, carmine, lead white, madder, Naples yellow, ocher, orpiment, Prussian blue, ultramarine,  viridian, vermillion, verdigris, zinc white.printing-auxiliary-thickener-for-disperse-dye-printing-da-310

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