Seems like I always think about blue colors in the summer. Perhaps it’s because there are so many images of water and references to the sea and the beach. Elle Decor featured a whole page of indigo hued objects and House Beautiful highlighted Catherine Legrand’s new book, Indigo:The Color That Changed The World.
Indigo is not a simple color and achieving the color for dyeing is not, either. According to Wikipedia, India is believed to be the oldest center for producing indigo dye and provided it to the Greeks and Romans. The Greek word for dye is indikon, the Romans called it indicum and it eventually translated to the English indigo. Indigo is one of the seven colors of the rainbow and it has numerous tones: electric, blue-violet, pigment, indigo dye, bright indigo, denim, violet- blue, imperial blue, Persian indigo, midnight blue, dark imperial blue, and Japanese indigo. Whew, who knew? Follow the Wikipedia link to see all the tones.
Here are some of Casart’s shades of indigo.
– Lorre Lei
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