[marshmallow]

Full headline: The Bible described it as the perfect, pure blue. And then for nearly 2,000 years, everyone forgot what it looked like

[freepertoo]

Wonder if this was Lydia’s “purple” in Acts.

[Celerity]

Douglas Adams wrote about “The Hooloovoo”

A super-intelligent shade of the color blue.

[rjsimmon]

Lapis Lazuli

[cuban leaf]

An orthodox jew I worked with in the mid-90’s told me about this. They had a blue thread in their “apron”, but the snail went extinct so, what to do. They voted on whether to find some other source to have a blue thread, or just go without. They voted to go without.

All that law stuff in the old testament is the equivalent of the laws of the US. It is the law crated for a theocracy - A theocracy that no longer exists. That is why so much of it, regarding food, etc, is so similar - yet intentionally different in some ways - to cultures contemporaneous with theirs.

[Jamestown1630]

I remember reading many years ago a theory suggesting that we couldn’t see the color blue until relatively late in our development:

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2

[Califreak]

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[Maudeen]

Thanks for sharing! Very interesting!

[Dr. Sivana]

Wasn’t that the Pantone color of the year 2008?

[Guardian Sebastian]

This is an interesting article.

https://www.quora.com/How-come-the-color-blue-doesnt-naturally-occur-in-nature

[Larry Lucido]

[RegulatorCountry]

Baby, Blue Ain’t Your Color

https://youtu.be/SoIKv3xxuMA

[Boogieman]

On a similar note:

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

[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.

[Hebrews 11:6]

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

[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.

[Pajamajan]

Interesting. Bookmark

[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.

[Chode]

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