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Nila Colori
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Nila Colori is a newborn handcraft Italian company producing quality products for artists starting from natural raw materials, born from an idea by Carlo Ferrara, founder and chemical engineer.Nila is the Sanskrit name indicating indigo, the night blue pigment which in India was and is extracted from the plant called Indigofera tinctoria with its scientific name.After in-depth study of texts written since XVI till XXI century we chose the plants which provide the most beautiful colors and with the greatest fastness to time and light. Each product of ours is the result of a research and development work, which blends scientific knowledges with traditional ones. The production is completely handcraftes and takes advantage of cautious choice of raw materials, both for pigments' preparation and honey watercolors'. The so obtained products become therefore high quality tools in the hands of artists. Our extrafine watercolors are prepared with the pigments we produce as well as with natural earths, as for example ocher or umber earth.We carried out an in-depth study to choose raw matters which could provide the most beautiful colors and the most stable in time: because of this they were used in the centuries.