[Sca-cooks] Puritans, was: Canadian Friends

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Laura C. Minnick wrote:
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> Lack of dye in the New World? Don't think so. Many (if not most) of the
> natural dyes we use now are New World, beginning with indigo...

Um. Actually, indigo is an Old-world dye. It's just that woad also
contains indigotin, which is the stuff what maketh the dye. Indigo will
grow here, quite happily, as will woad, but that doesn't mean it's not an
Old-world dyestuff.


Margaret FitzWilliam