Re: Indigo wars

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From: Kate Mahoney (kateb@paradise.net.nz)
Date: 09/22/03-10:23:29 PM Z

That was the famous Tyrian ( I think) purple that the romans used to dye
the robes of the emperor hence "Imperial Purple".
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From: "Gordon J. Holtslander" <holtsg@duke.usask.ca>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 11:38 AM
Subject: RE: Indigo wars

>
> Hi:
>
> For an exhaustive history of pigments, their discovery and use in art try
> the book:
>
> Bright earth : art and the invention of color
>
> by Philip Ball
> New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002
> ISBN 0374116792
>
> This book does say
> There is a blue pigment that was derived from a crustacean found in the
> mediteranean, it was difficult to produce and very expensive.
>
> Gord
>
>
>
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