In this film, Anita Chowdry, visual artist and long-term researcher and lecturer in the Arts of the Book and painting in the Islamic world and Indian subcontinent, demonstrates the traditional, painstaking method of creating blue pigment from lapis lazuli and green pigment from malachite stones.

Production Company: Grey Moth
Producer for the V&A: Joanna Jones
DOP: Arushi Chugh
Camera Assistant: Daniil Dominyk Gribanov
Sound Design: Benjámin Péter Lukács
Colourist: Nigel Tadyanehondo at NT Colour