Mined by torchlight since the Bronze Age
Sar-e-Sang, 7,500 feet above the Kokcha Valley, where seams of lazurite meet the sky.
Sar-e-Sang, 7,500 feet above the Kokcha Valley, where seams of lazurite meet the sky.
Six weeks of washing, kneading, and levigation to yield pigment of impossible depth.
Vermeer reserved it for the Virgin's robes; patrons paid by the grain for its radiance.
Pyrite stars, calcite veins, ultramarine depths — no two stones ever repeat the same story.