A deep-blue stone mined in Badakhshan (now Afghanistan) for more than six thousand years and ground into ultramarine pigment. Its name traces back to Persian lāzhward, also the root of “azure”. Also the title of a 1938 poem by Yeats.
A deep-blue stone mined in Badakhshan (now Afghanistan) for more than six thousand years and ground into ultramarine pigment. Its name traces back to Persian lāzhward, also the root of “azure”. Also the title of a 1938 poem by Yeats.