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.
Can't answer the first question, about "indigo" in the rainbow, and that is a
GOOD question--my mother also learned the rainbow colors that way. Since the
term dates to the very early 19th century, I imagine the blue stockings worn by
learned or literary women were probably either worsted wool or linen (called
"thread" stockings) dyed with indigo.
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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