The Story of How Your Clothes Got Their Color服装染色的故事

Madder， cochineal， Mauveine; these words may be unfamiliar but they’re the names of dyes made from a plant， an insect and a chemical that have shaped our world. While indigo is arguably the most recognized dye—the plant which colored King Tutankhamun’s burial shrouds and more recently makes your denim blue—there are dozens of other dyestuffs that have incited murder and subterfuge， made and lost fortunes and turned clothes into a status symbol for thousands of years.

茜草红、胭脂虫红、苯胺紫，这几个词可能看着有些陌生，它们分别是植物、昆虫和化学品制成的染料的名称，正是这些染料塑造了我们的世界。（剩余7926字）