The Material History of the Color Blue

[@matthieukiriyama7219]

He completely flew over the importance of azurite as a painting pigment. It was the most used blue pigment during the middle ages (a thousand years! but then again he did call that period 'the dark ages', so...), and was -and still is- used in Japan and China as the main blue pigment at least from the 10th century.

[@billy-joes6851]

Blue is his house with the blue little window and his blue corvette do dah dah di dah dah dah.

[@chiefandkat]

What about Maya Blue! Anthropologists have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual, widely studied blue pigment that was used in offerings, pottery, murals and other contexts across Mesoamerica from A.D. 300 to 1500

[@liamthompson9342]

Excellent speaker.

[@TesserId]

So, how come he doesn't have blue suede shoes?

[@jinxedsphinx3600]

word to Mac Miller?

[@i.c.y.]

This is so interesting. Amazingly interesting :) thank you for posting this.

[@pnutbutrncrackers]

The YInMn discovery would now make an excellent extension of this lecture on the wonder of blue.

[@greghawkins1025]

Dung is called "shit".

[@maggienwillbyhigh]

Captioning.... :-/

[@mostirreverent]

blue flowers...Centaurea Cyanus

[@ceecee685]

Becky doesn't want blue...

[@kale11opez94]

Blue is a very positive color.

[@matthiasschulze393]

wish he would have went onto organic chemistry, indigo and Tyrian purple...and then of course Perkin dyes and then BASF today

[@fourclaws]

Great Q & A at the end :)

[@J0eCh0p]

what about woad

[@hippojuice23]

J0eCh0p Woad dude! (sorry-had to!)

[@BIZEB]

Woad is a source of tincture, or dye, not a pigment.

[@apexxxx10]

J0eCh0p ...Woad ???

[@VNeto94]

What about Mayan Blue????

[@montyray6163]

I love the blue

[@emoster7195]

perfect to die my hair blue too

[@nocopyrightmusic2997]

Like your Channel ;)

[@Suite_annamite]

Indeed, "ultramarine" is a shade of "blue", because traders who needed it had to go all the way "across the sea" to Afghanistan to acquire it.

[@jinxedsphinx3600]

what’s with all the quotations