Egypt

Coptic Textiles at the Fashion Archives & Museum in Shippensburg, PA

Ancient History, Live Reporting / / , ,

Today I was treated with a personal tour of Ancient Coptic textiles from Shippensburg University’s very own collection from the Fashion Archives and Museum. Undergraduate intern Steph Craven has developed a focus on textile analysis and restoration, and brought out four boxes of these sumptuous embroidered fragments from Egypt’s earliest Christian communities for me to

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Indigo Dye

Ancient History, History of Science, Long 19th- 20th centuries / / , , , , , , ,

It’s pleasant, from where I write this post in my ice-bitten and wintery grey state of Pennsylvania, to look at this lovely plant. Here is _Indigofera tinctoria_ the most important plant to make the dye colored indigo — a color that meant beauty to some, but misery to many others.   Indigo is one of

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