Indigo : Egyptian mummies to blue jeans /
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Richmond Hill, Ont. :
Firefly Books,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the myth and the magic
- From antiquity to the Middle Ages
- Indigo's heyday, the downfall of Woad and salvation by denim
- Indigo plants and the making of their dye
- Blue nails: indigo dyeing worldwide
- The variety of decorative techniques
- 'For richer, for poorer' : textiles prestigious and popular
- Blue art
- 'In sickness and in health' : blue beards, blue bodies
- Into the future.