Plant-based dyeing is big on social media, and an eco-friendly alternative to industrial methods, but what does this ancient craft actually involve? Bel Jacobs talks to experienced practitioners about ...

“I’m trying to run on the food seasons and not on the fashion seasons,” says designer and artisanal fabric dyer Cara Marie Piazza, whose collections of simple, demure dyed silks are treated using ...

Madder, cochineal, Mauveine; these words may be unfamiliar but they’re the names of dyes made from a plant, an insect and a chemical that have shaped our world. While indigo is arguably the most ...