This is actually fascinating, good read. The idea of olden dyes and paints has been neat to me since that Assassin's Creed game with the robes you could recolor.
This is actually fascinating, good read. The idea of olden dyes and paints has been neat to me since that Assassin's Creed game with the robes you could recolor.
The whole concept that certain colors used to be rare or expensive to use is really fascinating to think about for me. Just the idea of needing to think things like, "I'll never be able to have a...
The whole concept that certain colors used to be rare or expensive to use is really fascinating to think about for me.
Just the idea of needing to think things like, "I'll never be able to have a purple shirt" because the materials necessary to make something purple were out of the reach of normal people (I don't know if purple is actually a good example, but the specific color doesn't matter). There might also be certain colors that people would never even encounter in their lives, because they were so rare. Imagine trying to explain purple to someone because they had never seen it and there's not really any way to show them.
Exactly! It's super cool because it plays into what entire classes of people wore--those colors were exclusive to the bourgeois for a long time. Imagine though, your town is visited by heralds...
Exactly! It's super cool because it plays into what entire classes of people wore--those colors were exclusive to the bourgeois for a long time. Imagine though, your town is visited by heralds from a far-away land and they're all draped in a color you've literally never seen before in your entire life. Absolutely wild. That has definitely been lost in modern time, people have a different way of thinking about the entire concept of color.
I am colorblind myself, certain shades of green and red look exactly the same to me unless they're next to one another. I love talking about color with my friends and trying to explain how I see things and all. It's weird because unless you have the same cones and rods as someone else, I highly doubt we all see things exactly the same... colorblind or not!
From the photo Well okay. Definitely explains why that Vermilion red was so vibrant.
From the photo
Vermilion red, made with mercury sulfide, king’s yellow, with arsenic, and ecclesiastical purple, made from blue verditer and cochineal mixed with rabbit-skin glue.
Well okay. Definitely explains why that Vermilion red was so vibrant.
This is actually fascinating, good read. The idea of olden dyes and paints has been neat to me since that Assassin's Creed game with the robes you could recolor.
The whole concept that certain colors used to be rare or expensive to use is really fascinating to think about for me.
Just the idea of needing to think things like, "I'll never be able to have a purple shirt" because the materials necessary to make something purple were out of the reach of normal people (I don't know if purple is actually a good example, but the specific color doesn't matter). There might also be certain colors that people would never even encounter in their lives, because they were so rare. Imagine trying to explain purple to someone because they had never seen it and there's not really any way to show them.
Exactly! It's super cool because it plays into what entire classes of people wore--those colors were exclusive to the bourgeois for a long time. Imagine though, your town is visited by heralds from a far-away land and they're all draped in a color you've literally never seen before in your entire life. Absolutely wild. That has definitely been lost in modern time, people have a different way of thinking about the entire concept of color.
I am colorblind myself, certain shades of green and red look exactly the same to me unless they're next to one another. I love talking about color with my friends and trying to explain how I see things and all. It's weird because unless you have the same cones and rods as someone else, I highly doubt we all see things exactly the same... colorblind or not!
From the photo
Well okay. Definitely explains why that Vermilion red was so vibrant.