Author: amelioramaameliorama
Date: Jan 15, 2007 06:58
Understanding Colour
Accustomed, as we are today, to having literally hundreds of paint
colours available at the touch of the button on an automatic mixing
machine, as well as the choice of thousands of textiles, printed and
woven in bright design, it is instructive to think of the lengths -
the sheer inventiveness and resourcefulness - to which people have gone
in order to bring colour into their lives.
All paint colours and dyes as we know them today are, derived from
mixing pigment with a binding medium, which allows them to be
transferred onto a surface. Until the middle of the nineteenth century,...
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