A fascinating exploration of imperial purple, Bryan - I loved this ride on the bus today!
One of mum's fellow textile artist friend's young son went to school one day and told everyone 'my wee turns wool blue!' His mum had been making indigo dye from woad growing in her garden, and certain chemicals were needed - ones which are present in the urine of prepubescent males.
I wonder what she created with the resulting dark blue yarn? And whether the garment's wearer knew quite how the colour had been achieved....?!
A fascinating exploration of imperial purple, Bryan - I loved this ride on the bus today!
One of mum's fellow textile artist friend's young son went to school one day and told everyone 'my wee turns wool blue!' His mum had been making indigo dye from woad growing in her garden, and certain chemicals were needed - ones which are present in the urine of prepubescent males.
I wonder what she created with the resulting dark blue yarn? And whether the garment's wearer knew quite how the colour had been achieved....?!
So glad you enjoyed the article! And thanks for the image of a garment dyed with prepubescent-boy-wee-blue! Yves Klein had nothing on that!
🤣 Yeah, sorry about that!