Farmer Ellie Maas Davis (right) shows Nathaniel Watkins an indigo plant during a dyeing workshop on Johns Island, South Carolina. The ancient plant is experiencing a revival in the state.

Photographs by Caroline Gutman Text by Latria Graham Artist Arianne King Comer works with indigo ink and rice paper at a farm on ... refers to the shrub, the dye the plant produces and the color ...

Japanese indigo makes a deep blue dye, and flax gets turned into yarn for linen fabric. Hibiscus manihot roots and Japanese mulberry bark will be made into paper. “The purpose of the garden is ...

"There's a whole history behind what I'm doing," Myers told CBS News. "…It's real deep." Indigo dye's beautiful color is shrouded by an ugly history. In the mid-1700s, wealthy South Carolina ...

A group of archeologists just published a paper with proof that Greeks on the island of ... 6,6'-dibromoindigo (DBI), a chemical that is (obviously) related to indigo, a blue dye that has been used ...

Its expertise in dye resources and techniques, particularly its revival of the native Nantong indigo plant through the Wu Indigo Comes Back Home project, reflects a deep commitment to both culture ...

To get that blue color, over 70,000 tons of indigo dye are made each year. When the dye (and garment dyes in general) isn’t handled properly, it can end up polluting waterways, damaging local ...

Participants — ages 13 and older — will learn to mix indigo dyes and folding, twisting and clamping techniques known as Itajime Shibori. Participants will create a finished scarf and a yard of ...

Natural indigo dye has been used worldwide for thousands of years, but the invention of synthetic indigo dye in the 1800s caused the industry to crater. In Japan's Tokushima Prefecture ...