Most of the discussion in sustainable textiles has centered around the fibers–manufacturers making a switch to organic cotton, or creating fabrics from natural, easily-renewable materials like bamboo ...

In the world of textile manufacturing, the vibrant colors that enrich our fabrics often conceal a less appealing truth: the environmental toll of traditional dyeing processes. Conventional textile ...

A new technology reduces the number of processes and natural resources that are traditionally required to dye cotton garments. The new technology is based on Archroma’s Pad-Ox dyeing process, which ...

Dyeing textiles is a dirty business. With as much as 70 percent of China’s waterways affected by pollution, the traditional “wet processing” of textiles–dyeing, washing, printing, and ...

In 2013, a team of Cambridge University scientists were in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley, developing a device to measure pollution in the region’s waters. The scientists spoke to local people, who relied ...

The students used advanced laboratory techniques to enable a protein from bacteria to produce a dye that binds with cotton, useful for coloring textiles in an environmentally friendly process. Taylor ...

STOCKHOLM/NORWICH, Britain (Reuters) - A British biotech startup is developing a method of textile dyeing that taps into the bright colours of birds and butterflies ...

Indigo dyeing is one of the oldest textile dyeing techniques in Africa. The process involves fermenting indigo leaves to ...