It’s the color of devotion, justice, creativity, dignity, and wisdom. In terms of color meaning, indigo is quite spiritual and mysterious in its symbolism. Indigo is rich in aesthetics and in meaning.
Today, the ajna chakra, or “Third Eye”, is associated with the color indigo (although not all systems of yoga agree with this color schematic). In 1873, Jacob Davis and Levis Straus used indigo dye to make their now famous denim blue jeans in San Francisco. Americans used it to make work shorts with indigo blue collars that showed less dirt and stains than white collars. On the other side of the world, love for indigo continued to grow. He even went to court to fight on their behalf for better wages and improved working conditions. The maltreatment of the dye workers sparked revolts and riots in the 1860s, to the point where Mahatma Gandhi’s first act of peaceful civil disobedience was in support of the indigo workers. The British began trading indigo once again by making the dye in India and unfortunately heavily exploiting Indian workers throughout the process. The story of indigo took an interesting turn in the late 1700s, as British demand started to decline and the American War for Independence began in 1775. By the 1600s, indigo grew in high demand across Europe and America, famed for its blue violet allure.
By the late 1200s, news of the popular blue dye made its way to Europe by way of Venitian merchant traveler, Marco Polo. The Mesopotamians, for example, carved out recipes for making indigo dye into clay tablets. By the 7th century B.C, people began using the plant as a deep blue dye. The indigo plant was called nila, meaning dark blue. Indigo got its name from a plant discovered in the Indus Valley about 5,000 years ago. A popular blue color dye called the Indigo Dye had been newly imported from the Indies that may have influenced his decision. He chose to include indigo as the seventh color. At the time there were seven planets, seven notes on the musical scale, and seven days in a week. On a spiritual and mystical level, the number seven had more significance. Some say he only saw six colors but decided that there must be one more to make it a total of seven. The human eye doesn’t readily differentiate hues in the wavelengths between what’s now called blue and violet. The seven colors he named became the official colors of the rainbow.ĭid he actually see indigo? The light humans see are wavelengths from the visible light spectrum, originating from the sun. So, why was indigo originally included in the rainbow? In 1655, Sir Isaac Newton started experimenting with prisms and explored how light passed through them at certain angles to form different colors. But in some quarters, it seems that indigo has disappeared from the rainbow of late. Remember ROY-G-BIV? It’s a clever acronym that stands for the colors of the rainbow in order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Let’s throw it back to elementary school for a minute. Create indigo color edits using Picsart creative tools.
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