Colour, travels through the paintbox
On her quest to uncover the secrets of colour, Victoria Finlay visited remote villages where women still wear skirts dyed with the purple tears of sea snails and investigated the mystery of Indian yellow paint, said to made from the urine of cows force-fed with mango leaves.
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