15 motley facts about colors and paints

Each person has a favorite color. But did you know about the history of the emergence of some dyes in our daily life?





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1. In ancient times there was no such thing as "blue". The people at that time perceived and called blue is different from modern humans.

2. In "the Odyssey," Homer described the color of the evening sea as "wine dark". This proves once again that in ancient times there was no special word for blue.

3. In the fifteenth century, girls wore blue dresses, showing that they are ready to marry.

4. First paint, obtained by artificial means, was just blue. In the twenty-second century BC the Egyptians connected sand and limestone, rubbed in the dust, with the dust of malachite and azurite, adding to these powders, egg protein. Thus they received the blue icing to draw.

5. Until the mid-nineteenth century natural purple dye was obtained by processing of jelly-like mucus of mollusks. In order to get thirty grams of dye was approximately twenty thousand clams.

6. Due to the complexity of production of such mollusks outfits purple color cost is extremely expensive. Emperor Aurelian even refused his wife to purchase purple dress because its cost was equal to its weight in gold coins.

7. Wear purple for a long time was a symbol of the Roman emperors. If commoners dare to wear a toga of purple color, it is immediately executed.

8. The red shape was invented in the Roman Empire. It was dressed the members of the team chariot racing.

9. In the seventeenth century in France, in shoes with heels of red color had the right to walk only aristocrats. Such a law took Louis the Fourteenth, forbidding commoners to paint the heels of their shoes red.

10. "Movein" — dye delicate lilac color was obtained in the course of the experience of the British student William Henry Perkin. It happened by accident, and after only six years the British Queen Victoria arrived in a lavender dress, dyed it with this dye, at the world exhibition.

11. Until the forties of the twentieth century, baby girls dressed in blue clothes, but boys, on the contrary, in pink clothes. It was believed that the delicate light blue color suits for girls and pink for boys.

12. In the sixteenth century in Italy the law obliges prostitutes to appear on the streets in dresses exclusively yellow.

13. Mary Stuart the day of the execution was dressed in a dress with a red underskirt. Thus she wanted to prove his innocence, because in Catholicism the color red was a symbol of the shed blood of martyrs.

14. The Aztecs received al powder dye from ground in a mortar small insects called scale insects.

15. In most Asian countries brides get married in a red dress, symbolizing their innocence.

16. In 1840 the British Queen Victoria was married in a dazzling white dress, entering the fashion for the color of the wedding dress throughout Europe.

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