Crimson & Indigo & Magenta

Indigo (very deep, blue-violet — the characteristic very deep blue-violet of the Andean night sky above Cusco — at approximately 3,400 meters altitude — the most dramatically clear and the most immediately star-dense night sky available to any inhabited high-altitude city in South America — the specific very deep indigo-to-near-black of the Andean night sky that simultaneously reveals the most completely Milky Way-saturated and the most immediately star-dense overhead canopy of any inhabited plateau in the Americas) and Magenta (pure, vivid, electric — the characteristic pure vivid electric magenta of the most important Andean textile dye — cochineal — the most specifically and the most immediately economically important natural dye export of the Spanish colonial Americas — the specific pure vivid electric magenta produced from the dried and the most precisely processed body of the Dactylopius coccus cochineal scale insect — the most immediately and the most comprehensively historically important of all the pre-Columbian Andean dye materials) create the most specifically Andean and the most immediately Quechua-textile cool-warm pair. Against Crimson's passionate Inca-textile warm, this creates the most specifically Andean Cusco Inca textile palette.

The palette is the visual world of the Andean Inca textile tradition — the most immediately technically sophisticated and the most comprehensively culturally specific of all the Pre-Columbian American textile traditions (the Inca textile tradition — the most immediately important and the most comprehensively culturally valued of all the Andean material culture productions — the most specifically status-communicating and the most immediately culturally coded of any Pre-Columbian American textile tradition — the Inca state controlling the most elaborate and the most comprehensively redistributive textile production system in the Americas — with the most precisely graded and the most immediately status-marking garment types for every most important level of the Inca social hierarchy).