When I asked a neighbor about what I took to be a trend, she regaled me with the history of a color she called “haint blue”—a story about the violence of indigo production in the South Carolina Low ...

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, to present-day cobalt mining. Her new book is "Black in Blues ...

People have been wearing blue jeans for centuries. Originally, the blue color came from a natural indigo dye. The dye was chosen for the way it interacted with cotton. When heated, most dyes ...

Blue jeans are a commodity that has become hard to miss in the modern world. Researchers have long known that this 'recent' development has roots in the centuries-old practice of indigo dyeing ...

Kaji Kakuo is revolutionizing the 400-year-old tradition of Japanese indigo dyeing, breathing new life into the deep hue known as Japan blue. He shares his thoughts on innovating indigo.