Indanthrene

[ in-dan-threen ]

Trademark.

1. a blue, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 28 H 14 H 2 O 4 , used as a dye for cotton and as a pigment in paints and enamels.

Example Sentences

In his studio in March, surrounded by empty tubes of paint — French ultramarine, indigo, Antwerp, indanthrene, cerulean, cobalt, Winsor — Mr. Finch said: “I don’t know if it’s going to be successful. But I feel that if I just do it in an honest way and work hard, maybe it will be.”

From New York Times

Imagine just what seas and skies could be rendered with the blue acrylic paints alone: cerulean, cobalt, indanthrene, manganese, phthalocyanine, Prussian and ultramarine; applied with brushes like brights, fans, filberts, flats, hakes, liners, riggers, rounds or shaders, made of goat, pony, squirrel, ox or badger hair; on rolls of canvas up to 6 feet wide and 18 feet long — Pollock size.

From New York Times

Indanthrene yields on cotton reddish shades of blue which are extremely fast to all external influences; in fact the colour is so fast that when once fixed on cotton it cannot be removed again from the fibre by any known means.

From Project Gutenberg

The algol colours resemble the indanthrene colours in their properties and application.

From Project Gutenberg

In a poster for Indanthrene Cloth, two schoolgirls carry not only flowers but also a stack of books, as if to underscore the idea that the female of the era was no longer a simple domestic but also educated.

From Time Magazine Archive