color

Indigo

Colors & materials

A blue dye from Indigofera and related plants, later a colonial plantation crop. A color and a trade, not a mood, and not the same plant as European woad.

  • Indigo resembles Woad.

    Both yield a blue dye. Indigofera indigo and European woad are different plants and different trades.

    resembles · interpretive · documented

  • Indigo is associated with Blue.

    Indigo is a blue dye. The color-name and the plantation crop should not be collapsed into mood.

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

    associated with · partially sourced · documented

  • 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

West Africa

sources