Name/Title
Red, white, and black make blue : indigo in the fabric of Colonial South Carolina lifeEntry/Object ID
TP923.F44 2013Description
Like 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, White, and Black Make Blue, Andrea Feeser tells the stories of all the peoples who made indigo a key part of the colonial South Carolina experience as she explores indigo's relationships to land use, slave labor, textile production and use, sartorial expression, and fortune building.Lexicon
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indigo, textile fabrics--history, textile fabrics--united statesBook Details
Author
Andrea FeeserPublisher
University of GeorgiaDate Published
2013Call No.
TP923.F44ISBN
820345539, 9780820345536LCCN
2013003108Notes
Length: 168