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 ...

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 ...

A frayed and ancient textile fragment discovered in Peru represents the oldest piece of indigo-dyed fabric known, according to an anthropologist from George Washington University. One of the oldest ...

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 ...

The oldest resist dyeing technique used for textiles in Nigeria is adire eleko, a practice which involves the use of cassava paste, a small broom, and a chicken feather. Nigeria-born local artist ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...