Bengaluru: What began as a curiosity-driven experiment by two city scientists to grow colour-producing microbes on fabric has ...

It started quietly in a few backyards where people were looking for alternatives to store bought dyes and synthetic colors.

A visual expression of happiness in fabric form, tie-dye, in all of its Technicolor glory, is the kind of mood boost we need now—particularly as we’ve been stuck in the same-old confines of home.

Researchers at Texas Tech University working in advanced textiles have developed a new method to remove toxic dyes from wastewater. And natural sunlight has a lot to do with the process. In ...

It is becoming harder and harder to ignore the environmental costs of textiles, and demand is still growing by leaps and bounds each year. Textile recycling has vexed researchers and the industry, but ...

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Since antiquity, humans have obtained colors from natural sources like plant leaves, flowers, and berries, primarily to dye textiles. This research shows our comparison studies of natural dyed ...

If the relationship between the reflectance function (K/S) and dye concentration (C) is known, the color of the dyed textile (R ∞) and C could be predicted from each other. In the present work, the ...

A detail of a fresco showing a sea battle framed in Pompeii red topped by a basket and a mask that decorates the living room of house of the Vetti, in one of the wealthiest homes in Pompeii, the House ...