Singapore-based dye and chemical manufacturer DyStar has released a new indigo dyeing system that it says will drastically reduce water and energy use during denim-making. The century-old company ...
The Orangeburg County Library this month is celebrating Eliza Lucas Pinckney’s role in making indigo a cash crop in South Carolina in the 1700s. Many people don’t realize that one of the earliest cash ...
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 ...