The field guide · Colour and dye
Lajevardi لاجوردی
Lajevardi (لاجوردی) is Persian for the colour of lajevard, lapis lazuli: a deep blue. Dehkhoda glosses it as kabud, dark blue, and notes that classical poets use it for the sky. In rug descriptions it names a deep blue ground or detail. It names the colour, not the dye.
Also lajvardi · lajverdi · lapis blue · lapis lazuli blue
See also Nili, Sormei, Firuzeh, Indigo
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