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The earliest evidence of red-dyed textile using scale insects was revealed in the caves of the Judean desert. According to a new joint study of the Israel Antiquities Authority, Bar-Ilan University ...

Israeli researchers have confirmed that a 3,800-year-old scarlet-red textile found in the Judean Desert in 2016 was dyed using a tiny insect referred to throughout ancient sources, according to an ...

Affordable and readily available, Red Heart is the yarn brand that many knitters, including me, used the first time we picked up a pair of needles. I was surprised to see a pitch from them land in my ...

One of the ancient world’s most precious dyes, used in the fabrics of the biblical Tabernacle and the priestly garments, has been identified from a textile uncovered in a cave in the Judean Desert, ...

The initiative was unveiled during the panel “Fabric of the Future: Red Sea Seaweed Textile,” which featured Burak Çakmak, CEO of the Fashion Commission; Fiona Symes, COO of KAUST Beacon Development ...

On Valentine's Day, red is everywhere. But how did that color become a symbol for love and passion ... and other things, too? A textile exhibition... The Color Red: A History in Textiles On ...