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  The cultivation of woad was especially profitable and was such an important source of income that it came to be called “blue gold”. Indigo (from the Latin indicum, that is ,coming from India), on the other hand, was obtained from the plant Indigofera tinctoria and began to be used …

  A pair of moccasins belonging to a Chippewa child, dating back to circa 1890. Made out of white deerskin, they have soft soles, bead decorations on a black cloth background, and edges and laces made of red ribbon. Animal nerves and regular thread were used to manufacture them.

  In Italy, in addition to being used by the maritime industry, a 16th century report has documented a loftier use for jeans material, and that is portraying in the Passion of Christ. This sacred cloth, which probably covered a chapel, is preserved today at the Diocesan Museum of Genoa. …

  It does not protect you from the cold, but rather from the heat. Locomotive and engine room stokers used it to have a cloth on hand with which they could wipe away sweat.

  A treatment carried out on textile fibers to eliminate their natural background color, usually yellowish or gray. It is carried out in dyeing machines using both oxidizers as well as reducing substances (bleach). At one time “natural bleaching”, was practiced, which consisted of spreading cloth out in the open …