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A blue colour works (german: Blaufarbenwerke) is a paintworks where blue
pigment A pigment is a colored material that is completely or nearly insoluble in water. In contrast, dyes are typically soluble, at least at some stage in their use. Generally dyes are often organic compounds whereas pigments are often inorganic comp ...
for use in
glassmaking Glass production involves two main methods – the float glass process that produces sheet glass, and glassblowing that produces bottles and other containers. It has been done in a variety of ways during the history of glass. Glass containe ...
is produced. Usually the
pigment A pigment is a colored material that is completely or nearly insoluble in water. In contrast, dyes are typically soluble, at least at some stage in their use. Generally dyes are often organic compounds whereas pigments are often inorganic comp ...
, cobalt blue, needed for this purpose, was manufactured from cobalt-containing ore as in the case of the factories listed below.


Blue colour works

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Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...
** Oberschlema Blue Colour Works (''Blaufarbenwerk Oberschlema'') (founded 1644) in Oberschlema, according to some sources this was the largest blue colour works in the world ** Schneeberg Blue Colour Works (''Blaufarbenwerk Schneeberg'') (1568 to around 1580) in Schneeberg, the first small blue colour works in Saxony ** Unterjugel Blue Colour Works (''Blaufarbenwerk Unterjugel''), 17th century, in
Unterjugel Jugel is a division of the town of Johanngeorgenstadt in the German district of Erzgebirgskreis. This dispersed settlement is surrounded by woods, is divided into Ober- and Unterjugel ("Upper and Lower Jugel") and runs along the German-Czech border ...
** Niederpfannenstiel Blue Colour Works (''Blaufarbenwerk Niederpfannenstiel'') (founded 1635) in Niederpfannenstiel ** Schindler's Blue Colour Works (''Schindlersches Blaufarbenwerk'') (founded 1649) in Schindlerswerk ** Oehmesches Blue Colour Works (1649–1688) (''Oehmesches Blaufarbenwerk'') in Annaberg ** Zschopenthal Blue Colour Works (''Zschopenthal Blaufarbenwerk'') (1687–1847) in Zschopenthal *
Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an ...
** Hasserode Blue Colour Works (''Blaufarbenwerk Hasserode'') (to around 1850) * Bohemia ** Christophhammer Blue Colour Works (''Blaufarbenwerk Christophhammer'') (1750–1874) in Christophhammer *
Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
** Modum Blue Colour Works in Modum ** Snarum Blue Colour Works in Snarum


Literature

* Wilhelm Bruchmüller: ''Der Kobaltbergbau und die Blaufarbenwerke in Sachsen bis zum Jahre 1653.'' Crossen, 1897
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* Friedrich Kapf: ''Beyträge zur Geschichte des Kobolts, Koboltbergbaues und der Blaufarbenwerke.'' Breslau, 1792
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