The Paper Will Be Blue During the night of Dec. 22-23, 1989, mere hours after the fall of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, a squad of confused militia men navigates the chaotic streets of ...

The stracci tinti method was innovated in the Dutch Republic between 1650 and 1750, making Dutch blue paper a coveted commodity for artists including Venetian pastelist Rosalba Carriera (1673/75 ...

Once it was time to erase the images and reuse the paper, it was simply cooled to 14 ºF (-10 ºC), causing all of the dye to revert to its blue state. This process could be repeated more than 100 ...