At 15:27 26/01/2007, you wrote:
Just checked my small dictionary - ultramarine was named because the
pigment came from over the sea, not because it looked like the sea as I
had thought, so there was an ultramarine blue, an ultramarine purple &
even an ultramarine yellow.
Patty
Oh, now I'm really confused - I think my olours come from paints like
others have mentioned. (Ultramarine being blue like lapis lazuli!)
Suzi
At 14:58 26/01/2007, you wrote:
>American here - ultramarine was strong darkish slightly greenish blue
>for me -when I was a girl - maybe a generational, not national, thing?
>
>Patty
>
Could be - I was old enough to be this lady's mother. According to my
small dictionary - too lazy to heave out the O.E.D. - ultramarine is
a blue pigment. The thread I bought was not blue!
> >I find this is still true. Here in the UK "aubergine" is usually a
dark
> >purple (the colour of what you Americans call eggplants), but in a
> >recent catalogue I've seen the name applied to a lighter
> >pinkish-purple.
>
>I was buying cotton thread yesterday, and the "mauve/purple/paler
>aubergine" thread was called "Ultramarine." Now when I was a girl, as
>they say, ultramarine was a strong darkish bright blue. My American
>companion said that the purple-ish colour was a colour/name
>association she knew - I didn't!
>
>Suzi
>
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