| Paint is one of the elements that are as old as | | | | recorded to take place over ten thousand years ago. |
| humanity itself, and is an important part of every | | | | Another very developed ancient civilization was the |
| culture. Regardless of the period in history, every age | | | | Egyptian civilization who believed in its curative |
| had its time of producing different type of dyes and | | | | properties. |
| pigment depending on the available resources. There | | | | Paint was seen for the first time as a tool for art |
| were a lot of regions who produced all kinds of paint, | | | | during the Greek culture which put a lot of passion into |
| and each age discovered a new type of paint. | | | | everything that was art related. Later on, the Romans |
| In ancient times, people believed that paint had more | | | | with their great technical skills understood the paint |
| properties than just decorating interiors or having | | | | utility and they were the ones to use for the first time |
| particular design issues. They were seen as truly | | | | the varnishes. |
| magical and they also thought it had healing properties. | | | | It is amazing how very old cultures, ancient civilizations |
| In the Indian and Chinese civilization there were these | | | | valued the paint so much. For example, the Aztec |
| color practitioners who could give the diagnoses of a | | | | Indians treasured very much the red dye and they |
| certain disease and cure it by coloring your body with | | | | considered it to be more valuable than gold. |
| this dyestuff. Even today, there are isolated tribes who | | | | The very first colors to be discovered were the |
| paint their body with all kind of colorful lotions which are | | | | blacks and ocher's, as they were readily obtainable. |
| seen as real medicines for men. | | | | But after the year 1000, the development of paint |
| The oldest traits of paint can be seen in early cave | | | | brought to light some other shades such as the |
| paintings, but the colors were pretty blunt. | | | | Egyptian blue or the read lead. Because |
| Nevertheless, there was an ancient civilization that | | | | manufacturers have noticed an increasing demand of |
| brought the manufacture of paint to a real state of | | | | more and more colorful paint, more man-made |
| perfection and that civilization is the ancient Chinese | | | | versions could be seen on the early markets of paint |
| one. Their glory and maximum development was | | | | and varnishes. |