Dye

Dye is associated with Blue.

Dye crafts include blues from woad and indigo. Politics of cloth-color are local laws and markets.

from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE; Julius Caesar · Gallic War, c. 50s BCE

associated with · sourced · documented

Woad is used in Dye.

Caesar says Britons stained themselves with vitrum. A Roman report of a dye-practice, not a pan-Celtic blue theology.

from Julius Caesar · Gallic War, c. 50s BCE

used in · sourced · culturally specific

Indigo is used in Dye.

Indigo is a dye. Plantation indigo is a colonial crop-history, not woad and not a mood.

from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

used in · partially sourced · documented