To produce this classic garment, producers rely on indigo dye, the only molecule known to provide jeans’ unique, beloved color. While indigo itself is naturally derived from a plant, growing ...

Most pairs of jeans today are dyed with synthetic indigo. It’s hard to say just how many jeans are made each year, but most estimates are in the billions. To get that blue color, over 70,000 ...

Though jeans are still dyed with indigo, the natural, plant-derived pigment was used for less than 30 years after Levi Strauss started putting his famous denim pants together with rivets.

Imogene + Willie’s relationship with Dale McCollum, who recently retired after 50 years of employment at Mount Vernon Mills, ...

A new technique for dyeing denim using a chemical that turns blue in sunlight could slash the environmental impact of jeans manufacturing. Blue denim is dyed with indigo – a compound once ...

two-legged cotton garments dyed with indigo will be classified as one of the most common human adornments of the 20th and 21st centuries. In typical archaeological fashion, these "jeans" will be ...

“When I caught wind of a Japanese indigo dye house in Bushwick, I knew we had to get over there immediately!” says Najafi, who invited me to try out the process with her on some white jean ...