Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Singapore-based dye and chemical manufacturer DyStar has released a new indigo dyeing system that it says will drastically reduce ...

Through indigo, Sharmistha Kar traces the labour and histories embedded in material. Her textile practice brings handwork and ...

Once known as “blue gold,” the cultivation of indigo dye fuelled one of the most exploitative chapters of colonial history in India. In the 19th-century, farmers from Bengal to Bihar were forced by ...