Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolour Half Pans Indigo

• 15ml Tube
• 5ml Tube
• Half Pan

colour

Indigo

Colour Code

046

Series

1

ATSM Lightfastness Rating

I Excellent (Not Rated by ATSM, based on DS independent testing)

Transparency

Transparent

Staining

Medium

Granulation

No

Pigment

PB60, PBk6

Used since the early Egyptian times, Indigo has been a very important colour in fabrics as well as art materials. Natural Indigo is a deep blue colourant named anil. It is obtained from the sprigs of the indigofera plant. In the late 1600's, the major source of indigo was the French West Indies, where large crops of indigofera was grown and harvested just before the plant bloomed. Once picked, the plant was processed in vats where it was water filtered, then dried into cakes for export.