On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 21:54:12 -0500 "michaeljdeib...@gmail.com" <michaeljdeib...@gmail.com> wrote:
Of course there were all shades of blue, but i didn't think they were indigo. Or perhaps is it that while the dye was called indigo, it was only common in shades of blue because a blue hue is more a washed out version of true indigo (which is more violet than blue)?
The "shades" of blue were the result of two things - the number of times the fabric/yarn was dipped (fewer = paler) and the length of time the garment was in use. Just like the difference between stiff new extremely dark original Levi jeans compared to what they look like after being washed hundreds of times. (or the accelerated version - stonewashed, acid washed, etc).
The name of the dye and the color of the dye are one and the same. Indigo = blue. There were no other colors produced that were called indigo. There was over dyeing - green could be achieved by putting something already dyed yellow into an indigo vat; dyeing with cochineal before or after indigo for purple, etc.
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