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Red, White and Blue: Sustainable, Domestic Dye for Denim

August 12, 2015 Kelly Flynn, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Blue jeans are a classic symbol of American fashion, but did you ever wonder how your blue jeans got their color? Synthetic indigo dyes are used to give jeans their hue, but that was not always the case. Only two countries, China and Germany, currently manufacture the dyes that are used to color...

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