At 04:54 PM 11/13/2006, you wrote:
In a message dated 11/13/2006 7:51:05 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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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
You are probably thinking about the single thread of blue included in
each of the fringes (tzitzit) on the four corners of a man's garment
(today it's called a tallit, or prayer shawl). I'm not aware of any
special significance of blue in regards to women. It's probably
something from the Christian symbolism (Robin, do you have any input on this?).
Joan Jurancich
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