Why do East Slavs use (light) blue colour?

[Arūnas]

Scandinavians paint their houses too, I guess for the same reason, but they do it in various colors. Do East Slavs use exclusively blue color?

no idea, I am not East Slav, never was to VURpire, the blue is one, but the graphic on it - flowers in 8-bit - is more terrible, as I wrote above

[rothaer]

Scandinavians paint their houses too, I guess for the same reason, but they do it in various colors. Do East Slavs use exclusively blue color?

I don't think so. I think is more that this colour is essentially absent in other countries for houses.

[Roy]

I don't think so. I think is more that this colour is essentially absent in other countries for houses.

It surely cannot be a very old practice as blue dye used to be among the most expensive ones. At least as far as fine arts pigments are concerned.

[ixulescu]

Have you noted that East Slavs use (light) blue colour while that colour is harldy at all used by other people in Europe?

I find that colour horrible. Why is it used so much among East Slavs and and why so little among other Europeans?

It's not only light blue but also light green.

I think both colors make sense in a marshland environment.

[noricum]

It surely cannot be a very old practice as blue dye used to be among the most expensive ones. At least as far as fine arts pigments are concerned.

Not necessarily, dyer woad (blue) is one of the cheapest and easiest colours to produce.
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