In a message dated 11/13/2006 7:51:05 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On another list I am on, a topic coming up regarding the relevance the colour blue is to Jewish women came up, relative to the Book of Judith and all the spin off paintings it has created particularly in Italian ren paintings. Wow! This stirred up a really vague memory of an article I read, probably 15 years ago about a special blue dye--if memory serves, it came from the Mediterranean, and was, similar to Tyrian purple, a shell-fish based vat dye. And it was used by the Hebrews and, again if I'm remembering right, had a ritual significance. As I said, my memories of the article are very vague--maybe someone will be able to fill in. Am I even right, that the dye in question was blue? Ann Wass _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
