California-based clothing brand Outerknown just released a very limited collection of indigo-dyed tees and sweatshirts. Hand dyed with natural indigo by the Dogwood Dyer, the collection includes seven ...

Blue jeans are an iconic staple of just about any wardrobe. But all that denim has a dirty secret: the dye that makes blue jeans so ubiquitous is actually made from fossil fuels and toxic chemicals.

It took me quite some time to put it together. But this work is more about the conceptualisation. For a very long time, I have been thinking about our clothing and indigenous fabric production systems ...

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley are trying to make the process of making blue jeans greener, by engineering bacteria to produce the indigo dye responsible for jeans’ ...

In A Garden to Dye For (St. Lynn’s, 2014), Chris McLaughlin teaches you how to make the most of your garden by harvesting different plants to create your own clothing dyes. She walks you through each ...

Sometimes it seems the world is awash in genetically modified organisms. You have your landscape-scale examples, like transgenic salmon or those GMO corn and soybean crops, made to be pest- and ...

Why Indian Fabrics Lose Colour Faster Than You Think Most Indian fabrics, chanderi, cotton khadi, silk, bandhani, ...

KU students harvested Japanese indigo from a campus dye garden, then transformed its crushed leaves into shifting shades of turquoise and blue on silk in Natural Dye Textiles class.

Tejidos Royo, a Spanish fabric manufacturer, said that it has created a 100 percent sustainable waterless yarn dyed indigo called “Dry Indigo.” The new technology launched last week at Kingpins ...