4 precious stone pigments in ceramic jars + 4 bowls, +1palette

4 Genuine Lapis set in ceramic jars (the shape and color for ceramics can vary)
+ 4 bowls + 1 mixing palette.
15g Malachite
15g Lapis Lazuli 
15g Tourmaline 
15g Vivianite 
 
Why is lapis lazuli so valuable?
Lapis lazuli, a semi-precious stone found in Afghanistan, was ground into a fine powder to create this exclusive pigment. The intricate process of extracting and refining the pigment made it incredibly rare and expensive.
Lapis Lazuli A deep-blue, semiprecious stone with golden veins, prized since antiquity for its intense color. The first blue pigment to hold its color. Lapis lazuli is the stone from which natural ultramarine pigment is ground. Until the 19th century lapis lazuli was obtained only from mines in what is now northeastern Afghanistan.
Lapis Lazuli pigments are prepared from gem grade rocks. The preparation of the pigment starts with cutting raw rocks to a smaller size and eliminating as much calcite and pyrite as possible. Then the size of rocks is reduced by a jaw crusher into coarse sand. The cleaned Lapis Lazuli sand is further wet milled in a metal free environment to prevent contamination. 
Malachite possibly the earliest ore of copper, having been mined in the Sinai and eastern deserts of ancient Egypt from as early as 3000BC, malachite is a green copper carbonate hydroxide. It was used as an eye paint, a pigment for wall painting, and in glazes and the colouring of glass.
In the 19th century, huge deposits in the Ural Mountains of Russia supplied large amounts of malachite to Europe.
Vivianite, Blue ocher, natural mineral indigo, a naturally occurring pale blue earth pigment composed of ferrous phosphate, owes its name to John Henry Vivian, who discovered the mineral at Wheal Kind in St Agnes, Cornwall.
This pigment is insoluble in water and typically manifests as dark indigo-blue to blackish green crystals, often found alongside pyrite and copper. Vivianite can also be found in an earthy form, commonly associated with bones, decaying wood, and other organic, phosphate-rich environments like peat bogs and clay beds.
Tourmaline is a fairly common mineral. Numerous mines exist whose primary purpose is finding gem-quality Tourmaline. Green Tourmaline’s energy works well with its family – other Cyclosilicate minerals.   
Turquoise powdered pigment.
Pigment is modern, but real turquoise gemstones were used as pigments in ancient times.
Intense bluish-green color. Lightfast, mixes with all mediums and pigments. Though our pigment is a modern mixture of natural organic minerals from France, this color could have been mixed by artists in any era. 
 
The word turquoise dates to the 17th century and is derived from the French turquois meaning "Turkish" because the mineral was first brought to Europe through Turkey from mines in the historical and Khorasan of Iran (Persia) and afghanestan. The first recorded use of turquoise as a color name in English was in 1573.
 
The mineral known as Turquoise is one that we commonly associate with the American southwest and mines in Arizona and New Mexico. Long before that, however, turquoise was mined from the Sinai Peninsula; the region of Sinai was known as Mafkat (“country of turquoise”) to the ancient Egyptians.
 
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Essee paints are made of natural Acacia gum, Honey, Clove essence, Glycerin, Earth mineral pigments, man made pigments.
Non-toxic watercolours. Finest quality, artist grade aquarelle, calligraphy paint. 
Handcrafted.
 
We are gathering the soil pigments all around the world and few months in the year working from Italy, where main sources of soil materials are found.