Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The partnership between Israeli company Sonovia and Italian denim mill PureDenim is getting support from a leader in luxury ...

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 ...

Stamps 2D media studio coordinator Nicholas Dowgwillo shows the new Sustainable Materials & Color Garden to students and faculty. Credit: Courtesy photo Bright orange marigolds and vibrant cosmos grow ...

When Leia Lewis saw the movie, Daughters of the Dust, a scene where the hands of a character, blue from using the indigo plant dye, had a deep impact on her. She describes the moment as a spiritual ...

A vat of indigo dye contains the magic of chemistry and the history of ancient civilizations. It’s also the reason your denim jeans are blue. At a recent Blue Hands event, textile artist Melanie Audet ...

Dyers say pigments can imprint a favorite color on clothing, quilts or even yarn and give them a way to connect with nature and preserve it. The flowers of perennial dyer’s chamomile are one of James ...

The process involves fermenting indigo leaves to create a dye bath. This technique allows artisans to create deep blue hues on cotton fabrics. The dyeing process requires multiple dips in the dye ...

Blue jeans are an iconic staple of just about any wardrobe. But all that denim has a dirty secret: the dye that makes blue jeans so ubiquitous is actually made from fossil fuels and toxic chemicals.

When James Young brews a batch of natural dye from plants he has grown or foraged, he knows something even more indelible than the new color of a white cloth will emerge from the bath. He is infusing ...

Indigo dye reduction and fermentation microbiology encompass the study of microbial communities and enzymatic systems that facilitate the conversion of water‐insoluble indigo into a soluble leuco form ...

Standing at the edge of the main motorway that terminates southwards at Kelantan’s Sungai Golok border immigration complex, Emsophian Benjametha traces the movements of several workers with long rakes ...