But its history runs much deeper. "The color indigo originally came from plants used for dyes before synthetic dyes were developed," architectural color consultant, Amy Krane, tells me."One source ...

While indigo traces its roots to India, the African slave trade made it exceedingly valuable on that continent. "Indigo was more powerful than the gun," McKinley tells Tell Me More host Michel Martin.

It was said that no indigo box was dispatched to England without being smeared in human blood, and resistance to that tyranny sparked a two-year peasant revolt—the Indigo Revolt of 1859—that ...

CLEVELAND - AkzoNobel, the world's largest paint and coatings company, unveiled today its 2013 Color of the Year, Indigo Night. The rich blue shade was determined by the company through a study of ...

Many people remember the colors of the rainbow by the acronym ROY G. BIV. For red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Well, the color indigo just made news. Indigo gets its name from ...