indigo
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The planting of indigoes was only by a handful of Hakka farmers in mountain towns, because poor transportation prevented them from acquiring imported dyes.
a tropical plant of the pea family, which was formerly widely cultivated as a source of dark blue dye.
Tuareg and Fulani women wear dark clothes dyed with indigo .
the dark blue dye obtained from the indigo plant.
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The sky had vanished, the entire world was painted a dark 'indigo' .
Portuguese and Genoan sailors used this durable, blue, broad cloth, dyed with 'indigo' , for their bellbottom sailing pants, and it soon became popular with farmers and others.
So there is the possibility to see whether they could produce by a chemical process to dye with 'indigo' rather than a chemical process as at present.
Indigo was also a significant earner of Chinese silver, but its replacement by synthetic Prussian blue brought the 'indigo' business to a disastrous end.
The aerial part of the plant was used locally for 'indigo' dyeing in ancient time.
But as I slowly looked over to the east, the sky turned from deep black to 'indigo' to azure to ever lighter shades of blue.
The rest were different shades of blue, from sky blue to 'indigo' .
Coffee, sugar, cotton, and 'indigo' (a blue dye) from Haiti accounted for nearly one-half of France's foreign trade.
The sheets are a dark 'indigo' blue, easily mistaken for black if there's nothing blue around to enhance the presence of that color.
Its blue colorant is chemically identical to 'indigo' made from plants of the genus Indigofera, cultivated in Asia.
In the sixteenth century El Salvador produced cacao, from which chocolate is made; in the eighteenth century it grew 'indigo' , which yields a blue dye used in clothing.
One corner of the obsidian has been cut and polished, and when held in the light it shimmers from 'indigo' to violet.
The blue is organic dye - real 'indigo' - the same color used in blue jeans, which looks so beautiful next to the skin of your hand.
The same options were available for dyeing the wool or cotton, which could be achieved using dyes such as madder, cochineal, and 'indigo' .
Natural 'indigo' is obtained from the plant indigofera.
Others planted truck gardens and sold corn, cotton, peanuts, sweet potatoes, tobacco, 'indigo' , watermelons, and gourds at the market for profit.
They were not blue, they were fiery cobalt, intense 'indigo' , smoldering sapphire, and they could change their appearance with her every varying emotion.
Because the blue used was generally 'indigo' , two separate dyebaths were required or, less satisfactorily, green pigments were used.
He sighed and looked more closely at the auburn hair and then looked into those dark thoughtful eyes, the strangest colour he had ever seen, a deep 'indigo' violet.
Originally, natural dyes from amla, henna, pomegranate, 'indigo' and turmeric were used to dye the silk.
So really, I used an analogous process for the fermentation, which in the case of the 'indigo' was done with a plant material.
A proposal from 1822 that calls for the use of paper dyed with blue 'indigo' might be of help.
It has the familiar, but always appealing, 'indigo' and saffron colour scheme and wooden floor of many modern restaurants.
A more accurate map shows a wash of differing hues of 'indigo' and violet, with some smatterings of infrared and ultraviolet at the extremes.
I thought 'indigo' might be popular because it's a colour people associate with rainbows and not much else.
She was wearing a sari, the whole outfit patterned with stylized blossoms that were yellow, while the backround was a rich 'indigo' .
I reached for my coat, a deep blue dyed with a plant called 'indigo' , and, after a second's hesitation, also took a pair of wool-lined gloves.
It also has some of the best beaches in Greece, with 'indigo' depths and aquamarine shallows.
I could even make out the different 'indigo' and violet stripes, which is rare.
Vegetable dyes have always been cheaper, the most common in William Perkin's day were madder and 'indigo' , the ancient red and blue dyes.
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