Indigo, “the bluest of blues,” is not just a color, but, as Catherine McKinley puts it, “an attempt to capture beauty”. Inspired by her own ancestral entanglement with Indigo, Catherine set out to learn from the last master dyers of West Africa and discovered amazing stories of wealth, power, and divine meaning.
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Catherine McKinley, Writer, Guest Faculty in creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, author of Indigo: In Search of the Color that Seduced the World
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