If that sounds like a mouthful, it’s because there’s ample science behind the technology, which creates denim nearly ...

Known for projects that explore heritage, motherhood, and resilience, Nixon-Silberg uses repurposed fabrics and deep-rooted ...

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.

The blue indigo dye commonly used in today's jeans was used by pre-Hispanic communities in Peru around 6,000 years ago. Well-preserved, 6,000-year-old cotton fabric from Peru contains indigo dye ...

A frayed and ancient textile fragment discovered in Peru represents the oldest piece of indigo-dyed fabric known, according to an anthropologist from George Washington University. One of the oldest ...

Many people remember the colors of the rainbow by the acronym ROY G. BIV. For red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Well, the color indigo just made news. Indigo gets its name from the ...

The oldest indigo-dyed fabric commonly used in modern jeans was first discovered in Peru around 6,000 years ago. Researchers at George Washington University said that the source of the blue pigment ...

Nung women teach their little girls to grow cotton trees, twine yarn, weave fabric, and embroider. In the Nung community, girls, who don’t know how to weave fabric and make clothes, will have a harder ...