Nepal’s Natural Dyeing Tradition: Why Hand-Knotted Rug Colors Last Decades

There are antique Tibetan and Nepalese rugs in museum collections and private estates that are over a hundred years old. Their colors have not faded to grey. They have deepened – a quality that collectors call patina and that textile scholars attribute to the combination of high-lanolin wool and plant-based mordant dyeing that was standard […]