This is an excellent analogy for solution-dyeing versus piece-dyeing methods ... rather than after it becomes yarn and woven into fabric. Colorless polymer chips are melted together with color ...

Ancient South Americans made blue fabrics to dye for. A piece of approximately 6,000-year-old woven cotton material from Peru gets its blue hue from indigo dye, making it the oldest known example ...

Even once fabrics are created they must be pre-treated, dyed or printed ... and even cloths so tightly woven that they appear to be of a single piece. As you can imagine, there are machines ...

Toledo’s skirt-and-jacket set is the show’s non-ikat piece: It emulates the look of ikat, but its pattern isn’t actually dyed and woven into the fabric. The Japan-trained Barton is an ...

Artist Stephen Hamilton invokes a Yoruba proverb when he talks about his work: “We greet the cloth before we greet the person ...