In 2020, archaeologists excavating an ancient burial ground in Autun, France, uncovered a sarcophagus containing a large piece of purple fabric with gold threads. Now, after several years of ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...

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 ...

Israeli researchers said they had found scraps of fabric coloured with a purple dye dating from the eras of King David and King Solomon in the south of the country. “The researchers were ...

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.