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The first Indigofera used by Europeans was grown in the Far East (the word indigo comes from the Greek word for India). Indigo was highly valued in the West, but Europeans wanted their own source of indigo that wasn't so expensive. That's where the New World came in.
Nov 7, 2011 · Catherine McKinley traveled through nine West African countries a decade ago to track the history of indigo, the blue dye that was made very valuable by the African slave trade.
Jun 8, 2016 · Indigo, a plant that produces a blue dye, was an important part of South Carolina’s eighteenth-century economy. It was grown commercially from 1747 to 1800 and was second only to rice in export value.
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Faboideae. indigo, (genus Indigofera ), large genus of more than 750 species of shrubs, trees, and herbs in the pea family ( Fabaceae ). Some species, particularly true indigo ( Indigofera tinctoria) and Natal indigo ( I. arrecta ), were once an important source of indigo dye.
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Jun 9, 2017 · As early as more than 5,000 years ago, our ancestors in India, East Asia and Egypt, as well as probably the Maya, used the blue dye derived from the Indigofera Tinctoria plant to dye their clothes.
Dec 13, 2020 · For four generations indigo has been grown, harvested and made into dye on this family-owned plot in Tamil Nadu. Keep reading. Where are they now? The graduates of India’s Door Step School. The...
Jan 4, 2008 · Woad ( Isatis tinctoria) is native to most of Europe, where it was widely cultivated for use as a dye. By the late seventeenth century, however, plants of the genus Indigofera, known as indigo, provided a stronger, richer blue and replaced woad blue in Western Europe.
