The Story of Indigo

Image above: Nigerian textile, resist-dyed with indigo from the collection at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum

In our color saturated modern world, it's hard to appreciate how much of a luxury color once was. This week, over at Creativebug, I wrote about a moment in the history of one of my favorite colors: indigo. From the Ancient Egyptians to the Mayans to American colonialists, I'm certainly not alone in my obsession with indigo.