On Vegetable Dyes and Knitting Patterns
Did the starving and exhausted survivors of the shipwrecked 16th century El Gran Grifón teach the Fair Isle islanders how to knit?
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In Memory of Purple Prose
One day, I noticed the phrase "purple prose" and thought to explore its meaning.
Snow White Wine
Some light research about the color of wine in antiquity.
Of Saints and Dragons
Slaying dragons seemed to be a popular pastime for Christian saints.
The Color of Alexandrian Peacocks
or "The Case of the Missing Dye"
Colorful Transportation
Including a link to Hue9: Color Sudoku, a fun iOS app which is a colorful way to play sudoku.
The Thought of Gold
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Borrowed Colors
Scroll down for a lot of color.
On the Origins of Web Colors
The case for intelligent design
How did indigo become violet?
Indigo became violet in the 1990s because of Netscape's co-founder.
The Vexing Evolution of Flags
Tracking the color blue on flags through the centuries.
Insulting a Colorful Emperor
What a 21st century art historian and Jesus each thought about a colorful statue of Augustus Caesar.
Red
Pulling at Red Threads
Celebrating two years of the Colorphilia Newsletter.
Lincoln Green
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.
Cuttlefish
"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.
Fabric
Why Corduroy Matters
Remember the artisans forgotten because of the Industrial Revolution.
Blue
Everything is Synthetic.
After more than two years of researching color, I'm reminded of how little I know.
Blue
The Noble, Beautiful, Most Perfect Blue
An overview of what we think we know about the origins of Ultramarine Blue in Europe.
Cyanotypes
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.
Hanukkah
What is "fun"?
A very Colorphilia way to attempt to understand the idea of "fun".
Turkey
Blue Jeans and Gin.
A serious proposal to change the name of turkey fowl to "genny".
Etymology
How Appelblauwzeegroen became Teal in Belgian Dutch.
Finding the hidden message in the "apple-blue, sea-green" hue.
Robin Hood
Creating Robin Hood
Announcing a book about the Jewish origins of Robin Hood and creating hope in a time of despair.
Darkness
The Color of Darkness
Why is Kṛṣṇa blue, what was the color of Biblical creation, and some other (un)related questions