>> 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.
I was channel-skimming at a friend's this past weekend, and caught part of a show called "Naked Archaologist" that was discussing a snail-based blue dye. In the section I saw, the show host was talking with someone who had been working on reconstructing the dye recipe based on some comments in the Talmud (or the commentaries on the Talmud, I'm not sure which). I think this show was either on History International or one of the Discovery Channel spin-offs. If it's History International, odds are it'll be rerun. I'll check next week while cat-sitting and see if I can find it again. Leah _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
