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 ...

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.

A Korean-born artist is passing down a centuries-old tradition to Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) students in ...

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 ...

A vat of bubbling indigo dye in the backyard of Father John, an Eastern Orthodox monk who plants and harvests indigo deep in the woods in South Carolina.Credit...Candace Dane Chambers for The New ...

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 ...

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 ...