Lapis, a semiprecious stone mined in Afghanistan, became highly prized among the Egyptians. They adored the bright blue color of this mineral. They used chemistry to combine the rare lapis with other ingredients, such as calcium and limestone, and generate other saturated blue pigments.
It was at this time that an Egyptian word for "blue" emerged. Slowly, the Egyptians spread their blue dyes throughout the word, passing them on to the Persians, Mesoamericans and Romans. The dyes were expensive -- only royalty could afford them. Thus, blue remained rare for many centuries, though it slowly became popular enough to earn its own name in various languages.
The history of blue as a color for everyday man began when the Catholic Church made an important move in the year AD. At this time, the Church decided to color-code the saints, and Mary was given a blue robe. Over time, the shade of blue that Mary wore became what is now known as "navy blue. This same navy blue was adopted by militaries and police to convey a similar essence of trust.
As navy blue became more popular among authorities, people began to associate it with the idea of authority. Thus, different shades of blue needed to be developed in order to convey the color's original peaceful, subdued meaning. Robin's egg blue and pale, powder blue were developed for this purpose. The history of blue as "the color for boys" is an even newer notion that primarily arose after the post World War II baby boom.
Business Insider. But the Himba tribe struggled to tell Davidoff which of the squares was a different colour to the others.
Those who did hazard a guess at which square was different took a long time to get the right answer, and there were a lot of mistakes. So to reverse the experiment, Davidoff showed English speakers this same circle experiment with 11 squares of one shade of green, and then one odd square of a different shade. As you can see below, it's pretty tough for us to distinguish which square is different. In fact, I really can't see any differences at all.
Blue remained the colour of the rich and the divine until the industrial age — with one notable exception. Workaday woad , a plant used as early as the stone age, was used to create a blue fabric dye. The leaves were dried, crushed and composted with manure — which, as you might expect, was a rather stinky process. It was also not colourfast, and had a far less intense colour. It was, then, strictly the poor relation of the royal blues and azures, used only for clothing worn by the smelly masses.
But with the advent of modern manufacturing methods, cheaper blue pigments became available, not least in paint. The colour was used to capture different moods by artists: Pablo Picasso, for instance, had his Blue period after moving from Paris to Barcelona in During the next four years, the paintings he produced in shades of blue and blue-green seemed to reflect his experience of relative poverty and instability, with gloomy subjects: beggars, street urchins, the old and the frail and the blind.
From the time of the ancient Egyptians, the blue depths of water personified the female principle, while sky blue was associated with the male principle. Blue is the color of all heavenly gods and stands for distance, for the divine, and for the spiritual. Blue is also the symbol of fidelity. Blue flowers, such as forget-me-nots and violets, symbolize faithfulness. According to an old English custom, a bride wears blue ribbons on her wedding gown and a blue sapphire in her wedding ring.
Tiny flowers of blue speedwell are part of the wedding bouquet. In the English language, blue sometimes refers to sadness.
The phrase "feeling blue" is linked to a custom amongst old sailing ships. If a ship loses her captain, she would fly blue flags when returning to home port.
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