These processing sites included an upper vat, also called a "steeper vat," where the indigo plants were fermented. The resulting liquor then was drawn from the "steeper vat" into a lower "beater" or ...

For more than a thousand years Koreans have been vat-dyeing fabrics and Hanji with indigo dye, one of the oldest natural sources of blue dye, made with the leaves of the indigo plant. The indigo plant ...

When Jimmy Kerr was a boy, he was playing cowboys and Indians with buddies when he stumbled across an old brick foundation nestled deep into the woods on his family's Johns Island land. For many years ...