US President Donald Trump has stepped out of Air Force One on to a purple carpet, not red. For the first visit to the Gulf region of his second term, Saudi Arabia has rolled out a carpet worthy of the ...

An ikat from mid-19th-century Samarkand, featuring large, bulbous blossoms accented by blue and purple leaves on a yellow color field, is a good example. The four swaths of fabric were sewn ...

Dezeen Showroom: Italian textile manufacturer Dedar has released a collection of furnishing fabric, which combines graphic art and textiles. The Geometric patterns collection features abstract ...

The color purple has long been associated with royalty. This wool fabric found in Israel dates to around 1,000 B.C. Dafna Gazit / Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority Biblical stories ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Researchers in Israel have identified pieces of fabric dyed ‘true purple’ dating to the 10th century BCE, when David and Solomon ruled in Jerusalem, according to the Hebrew ...

The team unearthed a fragment of purple cotton fabric dyed with the rare and valuable Tyrian purple pigment, suggesting it could be the long-lost sacred tunic, or 'sarapis', of Alexander the Great.