The dyes used in the clothing industry almost always come from fossil-fuel-based chemicals. In the long term, this will not ...

Every year, the textile industry uses 1.3 trillion gallons of water to dye garments – enough to fill 2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools. Most of this water, loaded with harmful chemicals and dyes, ...

The desire to apply color to a surface is intrinsic to human nature and humans have searched for natural sources of color since prehistoric times. They found out that some minerals could be ground to ...

Born as a coal-tar dye, reborn as a “magic bullet,” methylene blue has taken an improbable journey from textile vats to today’s biohacking. Its appeal rests on a seductive mix of real biochemistry and ...

Cultivating beds of indigo, marigolds, dahlias, hibiscus, and goldenrod, Pratt Institute students are exploring how to make natural dyes from seed to harvest. The Textile Dye Garden was planted in ...