A textile scientist at North Carolina State University is developing a more efficient method of dyeing cotton that is not only less harmful to the environment, but also uses significantly smaller ...

Textiles are a resource-heavy business. In an effort to reduce water consumption, energy use and a need for chemicals, adidas created the DryDye technology, which uses pressurized CO2 in place of ...

Partnership yields innovative solution for significant water savings of up to 97%, Credit: Somelos. Archroma and Somelos have created a New Dry Dyeing/Ox Finishing process for the production of cotton ...

Ever Dye has developed a novel chemical process allowing dyeing mills to dye textiles faster, using less energy and without petrochemicals. The EUR3.4m (US$3.7m) seed round was led by Maki.vc and ...

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 ...

Comfort Colors' ® proprietary dyeing process, Pigment Pure™, made an exciting new debut at the Impressions Expo last week. Dyeing is known to be a water-intensive step in apparel making, and Pigment ...

There are thousands of natural materials that make glorious colors in fabric, from rhubarb and dahlias to indigo and groundnuts. Natural dyeing is an ancient tradition, and the techniques behind this ...

Artisan Duan Shukun works on a tie-dyeing product in Dali, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Nov. 15, 2016. As a traditional folk technique of the Bai ethnic group, tie dyeing was listed in 2006 into ...

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 ...

Four years ago, one of my favorite sweatshirts got a very bad oil stain on it. Instead of throwing it out, I decided to tie-dye it, drawing on techniques and muscle memory from my days tie-dyeing at ...