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Ametrine, also known as trystine or by its trade name as bolivianite, is a naturally occurring variety of quartz. It is a mixture of amethyst and citrine with zones of purple and yellow or orange. Almost all commercially available ametrine is mined in Bolivia.
Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a family of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards. Credited to the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson, though with a rejected prior claim by the zoologist John Graham Kerr, it ...
Zazzle Inc. URL. zazzle.com. Launched. 2005. Written in. C#/ASP.NET. [1] Zazzle is an American online marketplace that allows designers and customers to create their own products with independent manufacturers (clothing, posters, etc.), as well as use images from participating companies.
In the 18th century, purple was a color worn by royalty, aristocrats and other wealthy people. Good-quality purple fabric was too expensive for ordinary people. The first cobalt violet, the intensely red-violet cobalt arsenate, was highly toxic. Although it persisted in some paint lines into the 20th century, it was displaced by less toxic ...
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Taylor Swift surprised fans with a new Lover bodysuit and more on the European leg of her Eras Tour. Swift, 34, kicked off her run of Paris concerts with a new bodysuit — and setlist — on ...
Shot silk (also called changeant, [1] changeable silk, changeable taffeta, cross-color, changeable fabric, [2] or "dhoop chaon" ("sunshine shade") [3]) is a fabric which is made up of silk woven from warp and weft yarns of two or more colours producing an iridescent appearance. [4] A "shot" is a single throw of the bobbin that carries the weft ...
Tyrian purple (Ancient Greek: πορφύρα porphúra; Latin: purpura), also known as royal purple, imperial purple, or imperial dye, is a reddish-purple natural dye. The name Tyrian refers to Tyre, Lebanon , once Phoenicia .
RYB (an abbreviation of red–yellow–blue) is a subtractive color model used in art and applied design in which red, yellow, and blue pigments are considered primary colors. [1] Under traditional color theory, this set of primary colors was advocated by Moses Harris, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Johannes Itten and Josef Albers, and applied by ...
RAL colour standard. RAL is a colour management system used in Europe that is created and administered by the German RAL gGmbH [ de ] [1] (RAL non-profit LLC), which is a subsidiary of the German RAL Institute [ de ]. In colloquial speech, RAL refers to the RAL Classic system, mainly used for varnish and powder coating, but now plastics as well ...