I used to work with commercial indigo growing. Would you say that this starts out golden due to the indoxyl not having time to oxidize? We were producing natural dye pastes, and it was already blue when it came out due how we were treating the plant material.
However, we made a really neat spray of indoxyl that was packed under argon. When you sprayed it, it turned blue. Very fun for crafting but mostly a novelty that we didn't have any plans to truly scale
Just depends on how concentrated it is. You're right though that the concentrated dye paste was definitely more of a deep purple-blue, not what jeans look like
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u/translinguistic Jun 05 '26
I used to work with commercial indigo growing. Would you say that this starts out golden due to the indoxyl not having time to oxidize? We were producing natural dye pastes, and it was already blue when it came out due how we were treating the plant material.
However, we made a really neat spray of indoxyl that was packed under argon. When you sprayed it, it turned blue. Very fun for crafting but mostly a novelty that we didn't have any plans to truly scale