Blue colour works
A blue colour works is a paintworks where blue pigment for use in glassmaking is produced. Usually the pigment, cobalt blue, needed for this purpose, was manufactured from cobalt-containing ore as in the case of the factories listed below.
Blue colour works
- Saxony
- * Oberschlema Blue [Colour Works] in Oberschlema, according to some sources this was the largest blue colour works in the world
- * Schneeberg Blue Colour Works in Schneeberg, the first small blue colour works in Saxony
- * Unterjugel Blue Colour Works, 17th century, in Unterjugel
- * Niederpfannenstiel Blue Colour Works in Niederpfannenstiel
- * Schindler's Blue Colour Works in Schindlerswerk
- * Oehmesches Blue Colour Works in Annaberg
- * Zschopenthal Blue Colour Works in Zschopenthal
- Prussia
- * Hasserode Blue Colour Works
- Bohemia
- * Christophhammer Blue Colour Works in Christophhammer
- Norway
- * Modum Blue Colour Works in Modum
- * Snarum Blue Colour Works in Snarum