To: Red Badger
Was the blue from a shell? The early Hebrews had a special shell to dye the holy blue threads.
2 posted on
09/14/2016 8:28:30 PM PDT by
Yaelle
(Liberals, you're not tolerant unless you are comfortable with diversity of opinion.)
To: Yaelle
A plant.
Cash crop in the southern US until synthetic dyes were invented.
5 posted on
09/14/2016 8:33:39 PM PDT by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
To: Yaelle
Indigo dye comes from the indigo plant.......
8 posted on
09/14/2016 8:37:12 PM PDT by
Red Badger
(YES, I'm Deplorable! I Deplore the entire Democrat Party!....................)
To: Yaelle
I think that dye was naturally purple from a Murex, a marine snail. Tyre was famous for the production of the dye. It is Royal purple
Indigo is produced from the plant Indigofera tinctoria. They tried to grow it on a plantation on Cumberland Island but couldn’t make of it
21 posted on
09/15/2016 1:27:13 PM PDT by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hilary is an Ameriphobe)
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