Red and blue. At left cochineal is prepared for the pot and at right Leonardo lifts the synthetically dyed blue cotton from the pot. His mother Luz remembers the time in her youth when natural indigo was used. All the wild indigo plants have now been eradicated from the area and it sees that no one remembers clearly and completely the old process for dyeing with the natural indigo.


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