Sentences with phrase «making indigo dye»

The metal is commercially available for making indigo dye for blue jeans, and Lathrop's team ordered 62 barrels of the stuff.

Not exact matches

We run craft based workshops at our lovely shop in Caldbeck Cumbria, ranging from felt - making, batik, indigo dyeing, wire jewellery and more.

Indigo gets its name from the plant Indigofera tinctoria and its relatives, which supply the dye that makes fabric the rich, beautiful color between blue and violet.

Even if anything even vaguely related to GMOs makes you squeamish, you'll be happy to know that if these processes could be commercially scaled and made affordable enough to compete with synthetic dyes, it could put a dent in the 40,000 tons of synthetic indigo used annually by the denim industry.

Blue jeans used to get their blue from indigo, a flowering plant (and you can still find high - end, indigo - dyed selvedge denim), but that natural process is pricy, and now 90 percent of denim produced in China uses cheap, synthetic dyes made from coal tar, sulfur, and other toxic chemicals.

I finally found the perfect nightstands, and I hung those dip - dyed indigo curtains that I made, during my indigo dye-fest a while back.

For the Jungle Tipi she hand dyed organic cheese cloth with chemical free and natural indigo dye to make the beautiful draping table runners.

It takes around 2900 gallons of water to make one pair of traditional cotton jeans — that's equivalent to 10,977 one litre water bottles — and when denim is coloured and rinsed, rivers are poisoned with chemical indigo dyes.

Made from authentic indigo dyes, so color transfer may occur.

These jeans were made from indigo - dyed Japanese selvedge denim.

Maarleveld's wonderfully effective narration embodies amateur botanist Eliza Lucas, who, at 16, begins her tireless efforts to make South Carolina the center of the lucrative indigo - dye trade.

Blue dyes for clothing were made from woad in Europe and indigo in Asia and Africa.

A chiffon shirt has cut satin stitched on the front and an indigo skirt, made from metal - free vegetable dyes, has a batik effect.

However, this gets you heavy - weight cotton, Japanese - made, and real indigo - dyed denim pants that should last for 1000 wearings.

I finally found the perfect nightstands, and I hung those dip - dyed indigo curtains that I made, during my indigo dye-fest a while back.