With the demise of big‑box fabric stores such as Joann and Hancock, chains that once pushed many small shops out of business, Napa became a fabric desert. Quilters, textile artists and seamstresses ...

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 ...