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Red, white, & black make blue : indigo in the fabric of Colonial South Carolina life /
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 quantiti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Georgia :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2013]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 this book, the author 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. -- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 140 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780820346564 082034656X |