Purple Reign
From Prince(s) to Pontiffs No color is more closely associated with royalty than the color purple. Cleopatra had 20,00 snails soak for...
What do mystics, Oliver Sacks and Blue Jeans have in common?
Showing the layering process of dying with natural indigo. This image shows the saturation of a cloth from zero to ten dips. Blue Gold...
Killer Green
One doctor, after examining the gown of a fashionable London hostess, found 60 grams of the arsenic based dye per square yard... enough...
Seeing Red
I honestly do not know if this dress is an original by Mariano Fortuny, but it's a splendid reproduction if it's not. I found it on a...
