Red, White, & Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life AUTH-476432 Editor Gregory E

Editor Gregory E

Author: Xavier De Maistre

ISBN13: 9781508535409

the consciousness invented by the subject through its very absence: the gaps

ISBN10: 1986131939

Red, White, & Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life AUTH-476432 Editor Gregory ELike cotton, indigo has defied its humble origins. Left alone it might have been a regional plant with minimal reach, a localized way of dyeing textiles, paper, and other goods with a bit of blue. But when blue became the most popular color for the textiles that Britain turned out in large quantities in the eighteenth century, the South Carolina indigo that colored most of this cloth became a major component in transatlantic commodity chains. In Red,