In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
by
Catherine E. McKinley
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
For almost five millennia, in every culture and in every major
religion, indigo-a blue pigment obtained from the small green leaf of a
parasitic shrub through a complex process that even scientists still
regard as mysterious-has been at the center of turbulent human
encounters.
Indigo is the...