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, ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Eliza Lucas Pinckney was a badass. The Charlestonian lass has been credited with bringing indigo ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than a thousand years Koreans have been vat-dyeing fabrics and Hanji with indigo dye, one of the oldest natural sources of blue dye, made with the leaves of the indigo plant. The indigo plant ...

Scientists have found that natural indigo dye, extracted from leaves of a plant of the bean family, is capable of protecting human eye from harmful laser radiation. It can be used to develop optical ...

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 ...

WAIKOLOA — Wai’ala Ahn and Justin Cool Tripp are happiest when they’re feeling blue. The two harvest and source plants from local farmers and make completely biodegradable dyes from fermented plants.

Some souvenirs are more powerful than others. When in Japan, you could opt for tchotchkes, colored fans, or kawaii trinkets — or you could get something with a bit more cultural meaning, like ...