On Feb 1, 2011, at 7:19 PM, Land of Oz wrote: > 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.
I am sitting here idly wondering: (1) Indigo does seem to be a "true" blue (i.e. not greenish or purplish). So how did the word "indigo" come to be applied to the shade between blue and violet in the rainbow? (At least the way I learned it: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) (2) What dye was used for the famous "bluestockings"? IIRC these began as actual literal blue worsted stockings (see basbleu.com) and were regarded as casual wear. ____________________________________________________________ O Chris Laning <clan...@igc.org> - Davis, California + http://paternoster-row.org - http://paternosters.blogspot.com ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
