The Bible Described it as the Perfect, Pure Blue..for 2,000 Yrs, Everyone Forgot What it Looked Like

The Los Angeles Times ^ | 8/10/18 | Noga Tarnopolsky

[RegulatorCountry]

Baby, Blue Ain’t Your Color

https://youtu.be/SoIKv3xxuMA

[cuban leaf]

Yet in the USA, there is a plant called the indigo flower which produces a blue color.

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Yes. But they took their law very seriously. It doesn’t just say it has to be blue. It specifically told them from where to get the color. It was from a snail, now extinct. So they voted to abandon the blue thread.

[damper99]

Microsoft used that color on their “BSOD”.

[Boogieman]

On a similar note:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/glistening-egyptian-blue-pigment-was-forgotten-then-lost-180956451/

[Boogieman]

Hmm, perhaps it is all caused by a conspiracy. There could be a group behind it, a nefarious group of men. Let’s call them the “Blue Man Group”.

[Bookshelf]

Most collectors consider Plancheite in its rare crystal form and found in the Congo, as the most vivid blue to be found on earth.

[Ace's Dad]

RE: "Biblical Blue" - not much to go on

Here's a starting point from a digital point of view. I'm a retired tech writer who put together many illustrations.

In your favorite drawing program, start with these settings:

RGB - R=0, G=0, B=169

HSB - H=240, S=100, B=66.27

CMYK - C=97, M=94.12, Y=0, K=0

I used these in an illustration about Jewish Rabbis.

[RinaseaofDs]

Bookmark! Thank you!

[Hebrews 11:6]

The Los Angeles Times ought to know perfectly well that it's Dodger Blue!

[Biggirl]

Serious as in “rigid”.

[cuban leaf]

I’m listening to a podcast series right now called “The Naked Bible” with the teacher being Michael Heis. Right now we’re going through Leviticus. It’s really good. the guy has amazing bible, language and history credentials.

His view of much of the “law” in the OT is that it was designed by men, for men.

[CaptainPhilFan]

When crayons were the absolute high tec to die for, this was my favorite. I would steal it out of the box and hide it so no one else could use it. It's gone now, I think replaced by a much lighter blue, which may be correct but it's not right.

[RinaseaofDs]

Cool story.

[Albion Wilde]

His view of much of the “law” in the OT is that it was designed by men, for men.

That doesn't automatically make it bad. Women had their own universe of pregnancy, nursing, homemaking and handcrafts.

[cuban leaf]

That doesn’t automatically make it bad. Women had their own universe of pregnancy, nursing, homemaking and handcrafts.

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I absolutely agree! He wasn’t trying to say it was bad either. He was just giving it context.

[Pajamajan]

Interesting. Bookmark

[SunkenCiv]

Durable blue was a puzzle for a long while worldwide.

Murex dye:
http://www.google.com/search?q=snail%20blue%20phoenician

Western hemisphere:
http://www.google.com/search?q=secret+of+mayan+blue

[Ezekiel]

...a perfect, pure blue, a color so magnificent and transcendent that it was all but impossible to describe. Yet, for most of the last 2,000 years, nobody has known exactly what “biblical blue” — called tekhelet in Hebrew — actually looked like or how it could be re-created.

People see it without realizing, because it's the Windows default color for highlighted text. Copy, then paste (glue). Like the concept of see and do (repeat, imitate).

Glued. Bonded. Intertwined like tzitzit. People have forgotten how to do that, being so busy with their faces facing an impersonal screen. Irony. Windows to the soul.

[Guardian Sebastian]

Smurfs perhaps? :)

[Chode]