TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brew-Hammond,Nana Ekua
AU  - Minter,Daniel
TI  - Blue: a history of the color as deep as the sea and as wide as the sky 
SN  - 9781984894366
AV  - QC495.5 .B74 2022
U1  - 535.6 23/eng/20220131
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Blue
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Pigments
KW  - Color
KW  - Dyes and dyeing
KW  - Bleu
KW  - Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
KW  - Couleur
KW  - JUVENILE NONFICTION / Art / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - JUVENILE NONFICTION / Concepts / Colors
KW  - JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places
KW  - fast
KW  - sears
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Picture books
KW  - picture books
KW  - aat
KW  - History
KW  - Juvenile works
KW  - Pictorial works
KW  - Informational works
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Creative nonfiction
KW  - Documents d'information
KW  - rvmgf
KW  - Essais fictionnels
KW  - Livres d'images
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 006-008
N2  - This picture book follows one color's journey throughout history -- from ancient Afghan painters to 1905, when a chemical blue dye was created -- and around the world, as it becomes the blue we know today; "For centuries, blue powders and dyes were some of the most sought-after materials in the world. Ancient Afghan painters ground mass quantities of sapphire rocks to use for their paints, while snails were harvested in Eurasia for the tiny amounts of blue that their bodies would release. And then there was indigo, which was so valuable that American plantations grew it as a cash crop on the backs of African slaves. It wasn't until 1905, when Adolf von Baeyer created a chemical blue dye, that blue could be used for anything and everything--most notably that uniform of workers everywhere, blue jeans"--Amazon
ER  -