Plants and People: Colors and Fabrics February 22, 2009

From the clothes that we wear to the blankets we sleep under, plants truly make up the fabric of our lives! Explore plants used around the world to make fabrics and colorful dyes. Learn how people have transformed plant materials into fabric throughout history and continue today. Investigate plants that produce dyes to brilliantly color fabrics and paper, and try your own hand at dyeing fabric using plant dyes.