(1) Indigo does seem to be a "true" blue (i.e. not greenish or purplish). So
how
id the word "indigo" come to be applied to the shade between blue and violet in
he rainbow? (At least the way I learned it: red, orange, yellow, green, blue,
ndigo, violet)
As to this question, it seems to be Sir Isaac Newton who so named the colors of
the spectrum--violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red. So one has to
wonder what his standard was for "true blue."
Ann Wass
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Laning <clan...@igc.org>
To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com>
Sent: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 12:22 pm
Subject: Re: [h-cost] his blue coat
n 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 =
lue. There were no other colors produced that were called indigo. There was
ver dyeing - green could be achieved by putting something already dyed yellow
nto an indigo vat; dyeing with cochineal before or after indigo for purple,
tc.
am sitting here idly wondering:
(1) Indigo does seem to be a "true" blue (i.e. not greenish or purplish). So
how
id the word "indigo" come to be applied to the shade between blue and violet in
he rainbow? (At least the way I learned it: red, orange, yellow, green, blue,
ndigo, violet)
(2) What dye was used for the famous "bluestockings"? IIRC these began as
actual
iteral blue worsted stockings (see basbleu.com) and were regarded as casual
ear.
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