Stony Creek Colors is convincing farmers who used to grow tobacco to switch to indigo plants and selling the natural blue dye to fabric producers, including denim giant Cone Mills. The Goodlettsville, ...

Indigo was once so vital to the state people called it “blue gold.” As interest in the dye reignites, historic sites are ...

Eliza Lucas Pinckney was a badass. The Charlestonian lass has been credited with bringing indigo to the Americas, and, in turn, making it thrive as one of the big three Colonial-era crops along with ...

Wearing a straw hat and rubber boots, Rowland Ricketts harvested a crop of indigo plants at the corner of 10th Street and Pete Ellis Drive. The gentle hum of his harvester's engine was drowned out by ...

In A Garden to Dye For (St. Lynn’s, 2014), Chris McLaughlin teaches you how to make the most of your garden by harvesting different plants to create your own clothing dyes. She walks you through each ...

AMMAN — As most dye used for our daily life products have become synthetic, natural dye from Indigofera tinctoria (also known as “true indigo”) are still available, thanks to the dedicated efforts of ...

In this image from video, Yoshiko Ogura, 73, holds fermented indigo leaves she grows at her studio for making organic indigo dye in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 20, ...

Randy Battle visits Gretchen Johnson at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown to learn about native and imported plants used to make dyes for fabric. Featured on VHG episode 2503, May 2025 ...

The natural dyestuff maker Stony Creek Colors is expanding its pact with the dye and pigment maker Archroma to bring plant-based indigo dye to industrial scale. Archroma will implement Stony Creek’s ...

Various plant species can produce natural indigo dye, but ‘Persicaria tinctoria,’ also known as Chinese or Japanese indigo, is a favorite among Southern Californians who like to grow their own for ...