This designer developed a safer, simpler, and healthier solution to conventional fabric dye—using scraps of old fruits and veggies. Nicole Stjernsward, a London-based design technologist, has ...

Don’t throw out that orange peel just yet—you could turn it into pretty homemade dye! Follow these instructions to make natural dyes from basic grocery store ingredients. Don’t throw out that orange ...

For both old and new gardeners, it’s almost inevitable that come harvest time you’ll have more vegetables than you know what to do with. Pickling, canning or even donating your excess produce are the ...

There are thousands of natural materials that make glorious colors in fabric, from rhubarb and dahlias to indigo and groundnuts. Natural dyeing is an ancient tradition, and the techniques behind this ...

Create your own natural colorants and create a mint fabric dye. Take your summer mint abundance and turn it into yellow and green dyes. In A Garden to Dye For (St. Lynn’s, 2014), Chris McLaughlin ...

Pigments are uncommon in the textile industry because, unlike dyes, they are insoluble in water and need a binder to stick to fabrics. The acrylic and polyurethane binders typically used can make ...

Fabrics with electrical functionality have been around for several years, but are very rarely used in mainstream clothing. The fabrics are very expensive and the supply can be unreliable. Frustrated ...

In a significant stride towards sustainable textile manufacturing, scientists have ingeniously harnessed the capabilities of ...

Initially, the researchers genetically modified the metabolic pathway of a strain of Komagataeibacter xylinus bacteria to ...

What’s old is indeed new again — at least when it comes to the ancient Japanese craft of shibori. Although the method of resist-dyeing cloth dates back to around the eighth century, it has been ...