Various plant species can produce natural indigo dye, but ‘Persicaria tinctoria,’ also known as Chinese or Japanese indigo, is a favorite among Southern Californians who like to grow their own for ...

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In this video, I make some indigo and dye jeans and socks. For a long time, indigo was harvested from plants, but it was eventually synthesized. I'll be doing one of the early synthesis methods, which ...

In A Garden to Dye For (St. Lynn’s, 2014), Chris McLaughlin teaches you how to make the most of your garden by harvesting different plants to create your own clothing dyes. She walks you through each ...

WAIKOLOA — Wai’ala Ahn and Justin Cool Tripp are happiest when they’re feeling blue. The two harvest and source plants from local farmers and make completely biodegradable dyes from fermented plants.

When the outcome of a craft project is a surprise, it’s often not a good surprise. My recent experience trying indigo dyeing in Tokyo was an exception to that rule. Using some scraps as examples, the ...

BERKELEY (CBS SF) – Not far from where jeans were first made, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley are reportedly working on dyes that make their familiar blue hue friendlier to the ...

Think about classic blue jeans. The rich color comes from indigo, and it’s so ubiquitous both in fashion and in the American cultural imagination that it’s easy to imagine denim cloth as a naturally ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- There's no doubting America's love affair with blue jeans. In fact, manufacturers churn out roughly three billion pairs a year. But producing that classic, indigo blue also ...