Pulling at Red Threads
Celebrating two years of the Colorphilia Newsletter.
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Chasing the Blue-Green Dragon
From Raphael's Saint George and the Dragon, through Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and past Robin Hood, and back again.
"Why do I use my paper, pen and ink?"
How attending a lecture about church music in 16th century England led me to better appreciate the academic research of the first Chief Rabbi of Israel.
Why Corduroy Matters
Remember the artisans forgotten because of the Industrial Revolution.
Everything is Synthetic.
After more than two years of researching color, I'm reminded of how little I know.
The Noble, Beautiful, Most Perfect Blue
An overview of what we think we know about the origins of Ultramarine Blue in Europe.
Who were Sir John Herschel's blue test subjects?
The inventor of the cyanotype used the annual literature yearbook "Friendship's Offering" as the source of many of the images he experimented on.
What is "fun"?
A very Colorphilia way to attempt to understand the idea of "fun".
Blue Jeans and Gin.
A serious proposal to change the name of turkey fowl to "genny".
How Appelblauwzeegroen became Teal in Belgian Dutch.
Finding the hidden message in the "apple-blue, sea-green" hue.
Creating Robin Hood
Announcing a book about the Jewish origins of Robin Hood and creating hope in a time of despair.
The Color of Darkness
Why is Kṛṣṇa blue, what was the color of Biblical creation, and some other (un)related questions
Lithuania
Color Researcher Develops Theory to Solve Millennia Old Mystery about Lithuanian Blue
How did they make blue glass beads in Lithuania in the 1st century?
Pasta
Pastel / Macaroni
The relationship between pastels and macarons.
Religion
Misreading the Absurd
I found a small error on a placard in the Jewish Museum in Rome.
Cheese
Cheesy Flowers
Thoughts about cheese in Italy.
Laundry
A Guide for the Perplexed (about Laundry)
Contains no practical advice or useful information.
Pink
Rethinking Pink.
A dispatch from Madrid, about Vilnius, Paris and Toulouse.
Personal Update
Ghosting, Apparitions & Spectra
A flash sale and a reexamination of different types of spectra.
Notes
Personal Updates & Curiosities
Today is my birthday and I'm leaving Chicago in June.
Etymology
Some Bizarre Questions
No answers guaranteed.
Polka
Semiotics and Semaphores: A History of the Polka-Dot
The Polka-Dot was inspired by the musical notation used by composers of polkas to create a staccato effect which mimicked the newly invented telegraph.
Holiday
Half-Baked Reinterpretations
Several half-baked ideas.
Indigo
Science, Commerce, and Why Indigo is not a Color.
Indigo is a pigment, not a color.