In case you ever wondered how real indigo looks like? This is a little rest of natural indigo dye from the Indigofera tinctoria plant. I brought it home from one of my travels long, long ago (> 20 years). It is one of my favorite colours and this few little chunks are waiting patiently to have their appearance on "stage", whenever I take part in the rainbow month.
Beautiful. I've seen powdered indigo once, as part of an art installation and one of the amazing things about it was not only its colour but its complete lack of shine, as if light fell on it and was adsorbed into it.
