Indigo Can Be Extracted From A Plant And Then. Indigo plant care is relatively simple. We bundle the small leaf Indiofera tinctoria leaves together using stems as ties.
The indigiferna tinctoria was planted during Thailands rainy season in June. When fully grown indigo stands at 7 to 8 feet tall and is a dense shrub. What follows is my transcription of a book initially published in 1892 on the processing of indigo pigment.
One of the things that makes natural indigo dye sustainable is that after the indigo pigment is extracted water can safely be put back on the crops.
When harvesting indigo the plant is cut to leave only 10 inches of. The solution can be puri-fied using the TLC method in Maier et al. The Indigo plant was the most widely available plant for producing dye and can be grown in many regions of the world making it an easily accessible resource. The amount of indigo dye that can be extracted from plant material is relatively small and varies from report to report.
