Blue Hands Collective, a collaborative of fiber artists and indigo enthusiasts, holds events, lectures and classes around the ...

When Lin Tzu-tzeng (林資曾) arrived in Sansia (三峽) in 1830, he found the local conditions ideal for indigo dyeing. Settlers had ...

T he first time I ever really paid attention to the color of my jeans was while sitting in urgent care, panicking because my ...

Once the only blue dye in Europe, woad pigment made a fortune for the sun-rich Toulouse area during the Renaissance, when it also was called Toulouse’s Blue Gold.

Artist Leia Lewis feels she has had a spiritual awakening by using the blue dye made from the Indigo plant. Her show is now at SUMAS.

Claims have been made that food dyes like Red Dye 40 and Yellow Dye 5 can cause serious side effects like cancer, allergies, ...

In South Carolina’s Lowcountry, artists, farmers and designers are writing a new chapter in indigo’s rich and tangled history. A vat of bubbling indigo dye in the backyard of Father John, an ...

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, to present day cobalt mining. Her new book is Black in Blues.

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

Scientists using dye to study female squirting say that it is mostly — but not entirely — urine Using blue food coloring, Japanese scientists gained new insight into the orgasmic phenomenon ...

On indigo blue dye and the slave trade These scenes in the historical record of people being exchanged for a block of indigo were heartbreaking to me.