The story goes that the lyrics to “ Black and Blue ,” the jazz standard popularized by Louis Armstrong, were written at ...

Blue is also the color of the slave trade: Dyed indigo cloths in West Africa were traded for human ... The original version of the song actually took place in a Black musical, and it was sung by a ...

Blue is also the color of the slave trade: Dyed indigo cloths in West Africa were ... and it was sung by a dark-skinned Black woman who was actually talking about colorism in the Black community ...

Indigo-dyed Japanese Noragi (previously reserved for ... the brand’s iconic tactile corduroy colour in a contrasting dark brown hue. Offered in a remarkably vast range of colours from ...

dark, rich, pure indigo 100 percent cotton fabric that uses ... The mill is also seeing interest in its range of sustainable dye technologies like Deep Dive, which uses a finishing process that ...

and in duffle bags rendered in indigo-dyed boro textiles. A series of beefy leather jackets brought to mind Pharrell’s fascination with Tokyo’s rockabilly tribes (a style he himself continues ...

It is not unfrequently desirable to know, with regard to dyed stuff ... in the case of a dark blue, the question rises whether the ground is pure indigo or pure logwood, or a mixture of both ...

The dyed indigo cloths of West Africa that were traded for human life in the 16th century. The mixture of awe and aversion in the old-fashioned characterization of dark-skinned people as “Blue ...