Ancient South Americans made blue fabrics to dye for. A piece of approximately 6,000-year-old woven cotton material from Peru gets its blue hue from indigo dye, making it the oldest known example ...

The oldest indigo-dyed fabric ever found has been discovered in Peru, pushing back the use of this blue coloring to at least 6,200 years ago. Previously, the oldest sample of blue-dyed fabric ...

This square of striped cotton, and a few others like it, represents the first known instance of people using indigo to dye a textile blue. The ancient Peruvian fabric is more than 1,500 years ...

A George Washington University researcher has identified a 6,200-year-old indigo-blue fabric from Huaca, Peru, making it one of the oldest-known cotton textiles in the world and the oldest known ...

Now, in an exhibition at SOMArts titled The Indigo Project, a duo of Bay Area-based curators explore the common thread between African descendants in the United States, deep blue dye, and the fabrics ...

to bleach the indigo according to the required pattern. By controlling the acidity, white areas could be printed by ‘full discharge’ while ‘half discharge’ would yield a lighter blue. Although Morris ...

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 ...

More than just an item of apparel, America’s tangled past is woven into the indigo blue fabric. From its roots in slavery to its connection to the Wild West, youth culture, the civil rights ...

My work focuses on creating clean colour. Many conventional fabric dyes are made using unsustainable processes. Indigo dye, for example, is usually made from petroleum-derived aniline in a high ...