Live in Color: Indigo

Altea Vallemberg

9 years ago

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Super brief history of indigo

Since Neolithic times indigo has been used as a fabric dye, at first extracted from the leaves of the woad plant (Isatis tinctoria) diffused in Central and Southern Europe and later on from the Asian true indigo plant (Indigofera tinctoria) which produces a more concentrated dye. Tutankhamen tomb contained an indigo dyed state robe, blue, the color of the sky and of the Nile, was considered sacred by Ancient Egyptians. In the East, we have the ancient tradition of fabulous Japanese kimonos.

Let’s fast-forward and the most iconic piece of apparel of our times, blue jeans, is, or better was originally, dyed in, you guessed it: indigo! today synthetic pigments have replaced the plant-based dyes.

Here is a small gallery the history and tradition of this special color, to put you in the right “state of feeling”.