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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World

by Simon Garfield

4.0

2000 Β· 232 pages

About Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World

Explains how English chemist William Perkin accidentally discovered a way to mass-produce color in a factory in 1856, and discusses how his discovery of the color mauve changed the fashion industry.

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