The beautiful book cover, which depicted a stained glass window with panes of different coloured glasses, was an apt choice for the book. For me, Colour… was as perfect as a book could get for me. However clichéd it sounds, Color… opened up a deliciously new world before me and one that I continue to explore every single day in art, but also in textiles, interior design, music, porcelain, and craft. To say that I liked the book is an understatement and I have lost count of the number of times I have read it. (I highly recommend that you can read my review of the book here.) The book is full of stories, anecdotes, histories and adventures inspired by the human quest for colour. It was Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay, which traces the history of how natural dyes, paints and colours were made for a European artist’s paintbox. Something like this happened when I visited the City Palace of Udaipur earlier this year.īut I’m getting a little ahead of the story, so first a little background.Ībout a year back I read a book that I can safely say enriched my life-like no other.
I always delight in these unanticipated surprises that get thrown my way and sometimes these surprises are so unexpected that it is difficult to even describe the feeling.
No matter how much researches or reading one does in advance about a place, there is always something unanticipated to surprise the traveller. The best part of travel is the unexpectedness.
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