[Sca-cooks] Puritans, was: Canadian Friends

[Laura C. Minnick]

"Pixel, Goddess and Queen" wrote:
>
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Laura C. Minnick wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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.

That is interesting. Can you give me more reference? I've always been
given to understand that they were the same family, but that woad was
the species native to the Old World, and indigo native to the New World.

'Lainie