- published: 22 Oct 2013
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Paas (trademarked as PAAS) is a brand of Easter egg dye. It is owned by Signature Brands, LLC.
The original Paas Easter egg dye was invented by an American named William Townley. Townley was an owner of a drug store in Newark, New Jersey, where he concocted recipes for home products. In 1893, he figured out how to concentrate dye in tablet form and launched the modern Easter egg dyeing kit. The original price of each tablet was five cents, and customers would make the dye by combining the tablets with water and vinegar. Townley eventually renamed his business the Paas Dye Company. The name Paas comes from “Pasen,” the word that the Dutch people used for Easter.
In 1901, according to a State of New Jersey inspection report, seven men and twenty women were employed in Townley's production facility at 60 Shipman Street in Newark. Paas eventually became the largest manufacturer of Easter egg dyes and Philip B. Townley succeeded his father as head of the company.
Paas Easter Egg Coloring Kits offered in 2009 include:
Got your message while I walked around
Yeah, frustration has it by the feet
And it's not as if he has a choice
Dinosaurs still walk the earth
Now it's mine to keep
It's what I brought with me
Filling up my chest
Coming home to nest I was wrong to give you any time
Yeah, I knew it now,
I know it then I hear electric music, solid walls of sound
Drowning down the staircase after you
Now it's mine to keep
It's what I brought with me
Filling up my chest
On the back you'll find a sweet long scar