With the demise of big‑box fabric stores such as Joann and Hancock, chains that once pushed many small shops out of business, Napa became a fabric desert. Quilters, textile artists and seamstresses ...

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 of ...

Three scraps of fabric found in Israeli caves had been dyed indigo, purple and crimson — the hues of the rich and regal during the Roman era — using sea snail ink some 2,000 years ago, a new analysis ...