T he first time I ever really paid attention to the color of my jeans was while sitting in urgent care, panicking because my hands had turned a sickly blue. Naturally, I assumed I ...

Choose Your Dye: Fabric dyes come in all colors and in varying degrees of blue. We suggest starting out with either dark blue (indigo) or black. Other colors can come out a bit strange as they mix ...

A simple dye job can bring them back from the dead. Primer Magazine shows us how easy the dye process is. The article suggests using Rit liquid dye; instead of blue, however, use black dye to get ...

This technique locks in the dye’s color, keeping your jeans dark and your furniture clean. If you must use a washing machine, toss in a cup of vinegar on a hand-wash setting—but please, no ...

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Once the only blue dye in Europe, woad pigment made a fortune for the sun-rich Toulouse area during the Renaissance, when it also was called Toulouse’s Blue Gold.