The Bermuda Triangle---Lost in Confusion

 

Bermuda is east of the Carolinas.

On the point of the "Bermuda Triangle."

Well, there is something about the Bermuda Triangle where planes & ships

are thought to disappear into another time dimension....

Facts or alternate facts? Nobody seems to care anymore.

Textile historians are rather skeptical of a recent "discovery" that 17th-century manufacturers on the island of Bermuda were dyeing complicated indigo resist cotton prints, a rather romantic hypothesis without any proof.

The Albany Institute in New York is showing an indigo print

of the type popular with New Yorkers about 1800 with this caption that

it was made by specific weavers on the island (weaving is NOT printing.)

Indeed! What a surprise!

Instagram conversation

It's disappointing to see the tale being presented as a "museum fact." It's not quite akin to the falsehood that runaway U.S. slaves made coded "underground railroad quilts." 

Yet.

Cora Ginsburg/Titi Halle Inventory

Indigo resist print, probably printed in India

Posts I've done on Indigo Resist and its sources this year:

Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE: Indigo Blue Resist #1: Florence Harvey Pettit's View

Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE: Indigo Resist #2: "How Fools Rush In"

https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2024/06/indigo-resist-3-testing-hypotheses_01179055915.html

https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2024/06/indigo-resist-4-printed-in-england.html

https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2024/06/indigo-resist-5-current-scholarship-on.html

We can hope.