Johns Island resident indigo artist Leigh Magar died on April 16. She leaves behind a prolific legacy dedicated to millinery ...

A natural dye that has influenced culture and history around the globe for millennia will be explored in depth in St. Augustine this weekend. “Deeper Than Indigo: Southeast Textile Symposium” will ...

A research team led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Maner from Koç University's Department of Archaeology and History of Art has uncovered remarkable textile fragments at Beycesultan Höyük that rewrite our ...

Glucose can serve as a reducing agent of indigo. This finding is significant for devising more ecological dyeing practices for the textile industry. Research Scientist Anne Vuorema of MTT Agrifood ...

A 6,200-year-old indigo-blue fabric from Huaca, Peru has been found by a researcher, making it one of the oldest-known cotton textiles in the world and the oldest known textile decorated with indigo ...

Researchers have identified a 6,200-year-old indigo-blue fabric from Peru, making it one of the oldest-known cotton textiles in the world and the earliest known textile decorated with indigo blue. The ...

Take a good look at the piece of cloth pictured at the top of this story. That was made 6,000 years ago by people living on the coast of Peru. Now check out those faint blue lines running through it.

Indigo textile artist Darius Homayounpour will discuss the history of indigo dyeing across cultures at 5 p.m. Thursday, July 11. The free program at the Art Garage at 689 Beaver Meadow Road, outside ...

Over the past two decades, textile designer Shelly Jyoti has been studying the natural indigo dye, one of the world’s most ancient dyes, with roots dating back to the second millennium BC, exploring ...

For archaeologists in the far-off future, 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 ...

The blue indigo dye commonly used in today's jeans was used by pre-Hispanic communities in Peru around 6,000 years ago. Well-preserved, 6,000-year-old cotton fabric from Peru contains indigo dye ...