Japanese jeans hand-dyed with natural indigo and weaved on a clackety vintage loom, then sold at a premium to global denim ...

People have been wearing blue jeans for centuries. Originally, the blue color came from a natural indigo dye. The dye was chosen for the way it interacted with cotton. When heated, most dyes ...

Textile industry consultant and expert Andrew Olah says that making jeans can carry a steep environmental toll, because the dye used to give them their usual blue shade - indigo - does not easily ...

If you have ever seen blue streaks on upholstery after wearing new blue jeans, you've witnessed crocking. It occurs because the dye was not properly adhered to the fabric. Color bleeding happens when ...

a dyeing craftsman at Kojima-based manufacturer Momotaro Jeans, puts it. His hands and nails are tinged blue from dipping threads of Zimbabwean cotton into a big pail of dye. He knows by smell ...

He calls it a "time-consuming and costly" method, commonly used to dye kimonos in the 17th-19th century Edo period. Momotaro Jeans was established in 2006 by Japan Blue, one of a few dozen denim ...

Momotaro Jeans was established in 2006 by Japan Blue, one of a few dozen denim producers in the seaside town of Kojima, ...