Sentences with phrase «of indigo dye»

Visitors may even find themselves lowering personal effects beneath the inky surface of an indigo dye bath at a one - day event in November where a group activity produces an incidental painting.

Above this thick surface of white felt will be a system of plumbing, to release controlled amounts of indigo dye onto the material, as if inscribing wounds into the skin.

Drawing from real historical documents, including real letters from Eliza, Boyd explores the origin of indigo dye, which would become one of the largest exports out of South Carolina.

In a new study, researchers picked up signals of the chemical compounds indigotin and indirubin, the key components of indigo dye, they report today in Science Advances.

Some simple stitching later, digging into that stash of indigo dyed fabric, and a good audiobook (What She Ate is currently in my ears), and voila!

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I visited rural villages, and I took my first trip to Chiang Mai, Thailand, where I stood over a vat of natural indigo dye and thought, This is magic.

The indigo - dyed birch platters and bowls from LA woodworker Sylvia Song are one of my Instagram obsessions.

Indigo dyed fabrics in home decor are quite popular these days and can be seen in catalogues of the trendier home decor companies.

All starting with a white or cream base, I've over dyed each piece with a combination of plant dyes ranging from indigo, red onion skins, cochineal, & madder.

Before the Spring Break, Kelly & Shabana, with the help of Melanie and April, hosted an Indigo Dyeing Party to kick off our indigo Jubilee festivIndigo Dyeing Party to kick off our indigo Jubilee festivindigo Jubilee festivities!

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

Indigo was one of the most prized dyes in the ancient world and was used in places ranging from China to Egypt to South America.

And it's in South America that researchers recently found the oldest known example of fabrics dyed with indigo.

Indigo appears to be licensed for use as a food dye in the U.S., but most [food dyes] are synthetic and of broadly similar chemical constitution to those used as textile dyes.

Blue No. 2, or «indigotine,» on the other hand, is a synthetic version of the plant - based indigo that has a long history as a textile dye.

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.

If all goes well, researchers envision giant vats of this specially engineered bacteria floating in cheap and abundant glucose, producing indigo for our bluejeans and shibori - dyed linens.

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 have always loved blue and one of the things that I love most about it is the ease of mixing in various shades from navy -LCB- thinking chinoiserie, blue ticking, indigo dyes -RCB- right alongside aquamarine tones of a coastal sea.

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This one adds a punch of deep color with a hue inspired by indigo - dyed shibori textiles.

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.

But instead of the rainbow - dyed shirts we loved as kids, this season it's all about cool indigos in modern dye patterns.

3) Now if the above two suggestions don't secure the indigo dye as much as you'd like it, then try adding a cup of household white vinegar to your cold water rinse.

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.

The decor of each room is based on one of the country's ethnic minority groups and it vividly showcases the tradition and diversity with bold accents, from naturally dyed indigo Tai Lue throw pillows, to finely hand - embroidered Yao bed runners to gleaming silver beaded Akha headdresses on the table.

Natural indigo - dyed garments fetch high price tags at boutique shops worldwide but little is known about the origin of this...

Also standing in peaceful protest, albeit as a reminder of a different historical struggle, was Manish Nai's Untitled (2017): five large sticks wrapped in compressed strips of burlap dyed indigo leaning upright against a wall.

Anya Gallaccio All the rest is silence, 1999 Chappa silk, indigo dye, watercolor paper 33 ′ tall Installed at Sadler's Wells, London, UK Courtesy of the artist

Stacy Jo Scott Mobile Craft Utopia, 2011, Fufu bowl, indigo - dyed sponge, 500 year old vietnamese pottery, iron oxide rock, mold, Anasazi pottery shard, fragment from Donald Judd's studio wall, chakusa, hand - blown glass, Chartreuse liqueur, wild rabbit fur, iron tumbler, wax drip, earthenware marijuana pipes, iron lingam, Josef Albers color theory cards, book, photo of Shunryu Suzuki, 8 ″ x16 ″ x34 ″

The paintings will be complemented by a selection of Bengston's handwoven Oaxacan rugs, depicting glowing moons rising and falling over indigo - dyed oceans.

The showing utilizes 130 feet of undulating wooden shelving that houses 300 hand - dyed indigo T - shirts with the pieces becoming increasingly deeper in hue as the viewer is further immersed in the space, emulating the artist's experience along a shoreline.

JOSH FAUGHT The Cosmetic Affect of Darkness 2017 hand woven gold lamé and cotton; hand woven hemp, dyed in last season's expired dye and Indigo; gay pin; half - gay pin; two lists generated from a support group meeting on powder - coated steel armature 72 x 57 x 23 1/4 in.

Come experience the unique savoir - faire of dyeing white cotton fabric by hand to endless shades of indigo.

Manish Nai's work demonstrates his perennial engagement with minimalism through transformation of the humble regional material of jute fabric, dyed in a rich natural indigo.

A blurred Gallaccio appears in only a couple of the images in this book, yet from the amethyst - encrusted front cover, through the flowers and vegetable foliage on the end papers, via every corner of all of the 266 inside pages, and out again through the indigo - dyed chappa silk, back endpaper, to the gleaming bronze back cover, one is aware of her omnipresence.

I think the coloring in this dress is striking, and I love that it's all from natural dyes — indigo comes from a plant and the exhibit's program says that Cochineal is a «scale insect that feeds on the Nopal cactus in arid areas of Mexico, Peru, Chile, and the Canary Islands.»