https://mayalucia.dev/tags/colour-palettes/ Recent content in Colour-Palettes on MayaLucIA Hugo -- 0.156.0 en-us Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://mayalucia.dev/surveys/high-asia-art/colour-palettes-traditional/ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://mayalucia.dev/surveys/high-asia-art/colour-palettes-traditional/ <p><em>Pigments, minerals, dye sources &mdash; extracted from the deep reads</em></p> <h2 id="purpose">Purpose</h2> <p>This document extracts and cross-references the colour palettes of five traditional High Asian art traditions: Pahari miniature painting (A1), Buddhist murals (A3), thangka painting (A4), Himalayan textiles (A6), and Newar art (A7). It names specific pigments, ground minerals, and dye sources. It organises by tradition, then maps the shared and distinct palettes across all five. This feeds design-language.org.</p> <h2 id="palette-by-tradition">Palette by Tradition</h2> <h3 id="a1-pahari-miniature-painting">A1: Pahari Miniature Painting</h3> <p>The Pahari palette divides sharply between the early Basohli phase (c. 1660&ndash;1720) and the mature Kangra phase (c. 1770&ndash;1823). Both use opaque watercolour (gouache) on hand-burnished paper prepared with white lead (<em>safeda</em>).</p>