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Icy Naj 16/11 - A Nice Hot Cup of Tea

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Florida Sailor All is well with the world

I thought some of you might like to read a bit about Indigo harvesting http://www.unf.edu/floridahistoryonline/Plantations/plantations/Indigo_Cultivation_and_Processing.htm

Yes, it is set in Florida, not the IoWsmiley - blush

I don't know if any of this is worth a Guide Entrysmiley - shrug

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Icy Naj 16/11 - A Nice Hot Cup of Tea

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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

Always. smiley - biggrin


Icy Naj 16/11 - A Nice Hot Cup of Tea

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Gnomon - time to move on

The word indigo in Newton's time meant the dye. I think the basic colour was the colour of blue jeans but you could make it darker by re-dying. Eventually you could produce a colour that was almost black although really it was very, very, very dark blue. The clothes of the nomadic Touareg are an example of this.


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