In the short film drama Indigo Blue, written and directed by Albert Pritchard, low-income parents (played by Jayme Lawson and Charles Brice) struggle to secure affordable healthcare for their sick ...

People who encounter an Ann Hamilton installation work tend never to forget it. I can clearly recall pieces of hers that I saw in San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Pittsburgh and -- in two ...

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 ...

Indigo dye for clothing is a lot older than the invention of blue jeans -- almost 6,000 years older, to be exact. Scientists have found Andean cotton fabric from Peru with traces of the popular dye, ...

For archaeologists in the far-off future, two-legged cotton garments dyed with indigo will be classified as one of the most common human adornments of the 20th and 21st centuries. In typical ...

Many people remember the colors of the rainbow by the acronym ROY G. BIV. For red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Well, the color indigo just made news. Indigo gets its name from the ...

Swinburne University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. To slip into the blue of your blue jeans is to slip into a surprising and unexpected encounter with the past … ...