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Indigo artisans do their work the time-honored (and time-consuming) way. of Rowland Ricketts’s textiles and wife Chinami’s fabric represents two spans of time: several centuries of indigo-dyeing ...
In this case it actually translates to “to bite,” meaning it helps synthetic indigo dye that much of the fashion industry uses to bite onto the fabric with its VICIOUS JAWS OF DEATH. Just kidding.
Real indigo-dyed clothing is not like the blue you know. Richer than the chemical blues used on most fabrics today, real indigo dye comes from a plant and has a surprising range of qualities: on ...
True indigo likes a long growing season, said Elissa Meyers, a dye artist. “And we got started a little bit late.” (The plants were squatting in a vacant lot in South Philadelphia.) ...
Indigo dye was used around the ancient world in fabrics created from Egypt to China to Meso and South America. ... But when a conservator carefully washed the fabric, the true colors reappeared.
Earliest Evidence of Indigo Dye Found at Ancient Peruvian Burial Site The dyed fabrics represent the earliest known use of indigo in the world, predating Egyptian samples by about 1,600 years ...
Producing indigo dye is a bit like making beer, she explained, as we piled into her indigo Subaru. The leaves are steeped and fermented in water but that doesn’t produce the breathtaking color.
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