Utah State University Extension is bringing traditional indigo dyeing back into home gardens with a comprehensive three-part guide to growing, extracting, and dyeing with Japanese indigo (Persicaria ...

Indigo dyeing, an ancient art found all over the world, uses dye from indigo plant leaves, known as jjok in Korean for its deep blue hue. In 2012, Jang Su-ju founded the brand Kindigo in Yongin, ...

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, only a handful ...

[Editor's note] Job-hopping is common today. According to the Ministry of Data and Statistics (MODS), from 2018 to 2023 only 4 out of 10 people stayed at the same workplace. In particular, Millennials ...

In the early 1880s, chemist Adolf von Baeyer devised a scheme that would revolutionize the fashion industry. For thousands of years prior, people had dyed fabric blue using powders painstakingly ...

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 is a dye that has been prized since antiquity for its vibrancy and deep blue hue, with evidence of its use dating back 6,000 years 1. For more than a century, its unique properties have been ...