This was a major breakthrough because dying fabrics from natural substances is both expensive and labor-intensive. Perkins and other chemists set about to develop cheaper methods to dye fabrics.

Using food scraps and natural materials to dye fabrics in beautiful pastel shades is a growing craft movement. We asked an expert how to get started with natural dyeing at home. Welcome to The ...

Think about your favorite shirt. What color is it — and how did it become that color? The dye manufacturer tested different types of fabrics to see how the color would look on each. The manufacturer ...

Until now, the colour had been found on mollusc shells and fragments of pottery, but not on dyed fabrics. Carbon-dating of the fragment found it came from about 1,000 BC, around the time when King ...

The Dickson North American awning fabric collection from Trivantage® includes a large selection of water-repellent, ...

The UK-based start-up has targeted one of the dirtiest parts of the apparel industry - dyeing fabric - with the world’s first digital dyeing process. “Traditionally in dyeing fabric ...

Ngugi woman Stephanie Beaupark, artist, scientist and curator talks about her PhD research and how she is using traditional ...