2009년 6월 26일 금요일

Indian Yellow

The deep, dark, and strongly shiny yellow which is impossible to immitate,
That was the Indian Yellow. It was discovered in fifteenth century by Roger Dewhurst, the painter. In India, it was the color indicating the rank of a ruler.


Unlike ovarious other yellows that had lead, arsenic, or cadmium in them which are poisonous, indian yellow was one that was pure without poisonous chemicals.


The noble Indian yellow's source was ironically cow's urine. But what was worse was the fact that those urines were from sick cows. What they did to get the cows sick was absolutely intentional, only in order to get the yellow pigment they wanted.


The cows were fed with Mango leaves which caused diseases to them. So the England Animal protection regulations prohibited the action of collecting those yellows. But people still longed for the noble yellow because they couldn't find any other yellows that replaced the indian yellow.

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