indigo

Aceh
19th Century
Source: Scheper, Karin (2023). Bindings, Bags and Boxes: Sewn and Unsewn Manuscript Formats in the Islamic World. In: Georgios Boudalis and Karin Scheper (Eds.), Chains, Links and Loops.
Recipe Details

Ingredients

indigo

Evidence

"UBL, Or. 2275, an indigo blue bag for an Acehnese manuscript, before 1877"

Remarks

Pigment used for coloring the textile bag housing an Acehnese manuscript. The paper focuses on the variety of enclosures like this indigo bag that were used to further protect bound manuscripts (p. 122).

Scientific Analysis
Analytical Techniques
Visual inspection
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
pigment
ColorBlue
RegionAceh
Approx. Year1850
Source Information
AuthorScheper, Karin
CollectionUBL, Or. 2275
Language
N/A
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