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Out of All of the Shades of Blue, Designers Decide Which is the Most Expensive Looking
Should you decorate with navy blue, indigo, cobalt, or Prussian? I took a look back at its history, speaking with art, design, and color experts to find out. Here's what I learned. There are many ...
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With 100 Pounds of Blue Pigment, an Artist Conjures Spirits of the Past
The wall is painted with a blue pigment that chemists made for her, inspired by George Washington Carver’s patented Prussian Blue.Credit...Elias Williams for The New York Times Supported by By ...
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Students in RISD Studio Re-Create Historical Wallpaper-Making Materials and Techniques
The RISD Museum collaborated with Adelphi Paper Hangings in upstate New York to reproduce one of the original French designs ...
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The art of cyanotypes revamped with the Text & conText Lab
The Center for Creativity hosted a workshop to tone cyanotypes with watercolor paints and natural liquids like black tea, ...
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Jeans can help the environment. Scientists reveal how
Scientists have discovered that an element in Prussian blue, a substance commonly used to give jeans their blue color, ...
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Means of Detecting the kind of Dyes used in the Coloring of Textile Fabrics
When the color to be examined is a mixed one, for example, logwood-blue, with prussian blue or indigo, the color of the logwood is first destroyed by dilute acid, the stuff washed and treated with ...
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With 100 Pounds of Blue Pigment, an Artist Conjures Spirits of the Past
CHICAGO — Standing in her studio on the South Side of Chicago earlier this winter, abstract painter and architect Amanda Williams was surprised by a dark blue form that filled the earth-toned ...