Ancient Blue Dyes
Shirt dyed with red cabbage pigment & baking soda dyeing agent, exploring ancient blue dye sources
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This shirt was colored with natural dyes. However, most of your clothing is made from synthetic dyes, which have major negative consequences to the earth and its inhabitants
True indigo, dyer’s knotweed, and more plants containing indirubin have been used to dye garments blue for thousands of years. These resources don’t contain toxic chemicals, and dyeing with them can require less water than dyeing with synthetic dyes
It’s time to return to roots - support natural dyes over synthetic dyes