Textile dye analysis forms a critical aspect of forensic science, offering a reliable means of linking trace evidence to sources in criminal investigations. This field leverages a variety of ...
Inkjet printing on textiles has emerged as a transformative technique that combines precision digital printing with advanced dye chemistry. This approach exploits the interplay between engineered ...
Archaeologists in Belgium uncovered traces of woad, madder, and pastel during excavations in Brussels and Mechelen, ...
Textile analysis can aid everyone from forensic anthropologists searching for clues to museum conservators hoping to identify and preserve an antique dress. Experts first need to place an item ...
The desire to apply color to a surface is intrinsic to human nature and humans have searched for natural sources of color since prehistoric times. They found out that some minerals could be ground to ...
Until the Spanish discovered cochineals in the New World, harvesting and crushing parasitic scale insects that live on oak trees was the predominate means of producing high quality red dye. Early ...
Every year, the textile industry uses 1.3 trillion gallons of water to dye garments – enough to fill 2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools. Most of this water, loaded with harmful chemicals and dyes, ...
The textile industry is on the brink of a sustainable transformation, supported by an ambitious new project called DyeAnotherWay, led and coordinated by Professor Heidi Halbwirth from TU Wien, Austria ...