Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
Catherine E. McKinley, 2011, Bloomsbury, 9781608195053, 235 pages with photographs, hardcover.
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For almost five millennia, in every culture and in every major religion, indigo--a blue pigment obtained from the small green leaf of a parasitic shrub through a complex process that even scientists still regard as mysterious--has been at the center of turbulent human encounters. McKinley presents the story of this precious dye and its ancient heritage.
Catherine E. McKinley, 2011, Bloomsbury, 9781608195053, 235 pages with photographs, hardcover.
NEW.
For almost five millennia, in every culture and in every major religion, indigo--a blue pigment obtained from the small green leaf of a parasitic shrub through a complex process that even scientists still regard as mysterious--has been at the center of turbulent human encounters. McKinley presents the story of this precious dye and its ancient heritage.
Catherine E. McKinley, 2011, Bloomsbury, 9781608195053, 235 pages with photographs, hardcover.
NEW.
For almost five millennia, in every culture and in every major religion, indigo--a blue pigment obtained from the small green leaf of a parasitic shrub through a complex process that even scientists still regard as mysterious--has been at the center of turbulent human encounters. McKinley presents the story of this precious dye and its ancient heritage.