New Life in an Old Dye
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Description: Short article about the renewed interest in natural indigo dyes for textile applications. Published in the New Agriculturist On-Line.
New agriculturist: Essential Extracts: New life in an old dye Five hundred species of plants have a characteristic that the fashionable and the chic find irresistable. The substance extracted from their leaves yields the only natural blue dye known to man - indigo. It made fortunes for farmers in mediaeval times. Since then, synthetic dyes have taken the time and toil out of colouring textiles and natural dyes have faded out of use. But natural fibres are making a comeback in the fashion industry and natural fibres demand a natural dye. There will never be enough land to spare to grow sufficient indigo-bearing plants to dye the world's two billion pairs of jeans but could indigo help take some farming businesses out of the red?
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| Page title: | New agriculturist: Essential Extracts: New life in an old dye |
| Keywords: | agriculture, international, tropical, natural, blue, dye, color, colour, indigo, jean, temperate, tropical, Indigofera tinctoria, Polygonum tinctorum, woad, Isatis tinctoria, indican, PERTEGUI, IDRC, brassica |
| Description: | New Agriculturist 00-2: Essential Extracts: New life in an old dye |
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| Date | Created On:12-Dec-2006 18:09:13 UTC Last Updated On:23-Jan-2014 20:45:11 UTC Expiration Date:12-Dec-2014 18:09:13 UTC |