Though Perkin was young, he sensed a business opportunity, patented the dye, and quickly opened a dyeworks shop in London. And by 1862, Queen Victoria herself was wearing garments dyed with mauveine.

Madder, cochineal, Mauveine; Dyes have incited murder and subterfuge, made and lost fortunes and turned clothes into a status symbol for thousands of years. A new book examines why.

When red dye No. 3 was federally outlawed in the U.S. on January 15, 2025, it marked a turning point for future food production on the domestic market. The popular red dye — also called Red No ...

In 1862, Queen Victoria wore a gown that was dyed using mauveine to the Royal Exhibition. Perkin had been trying to find a synthetic treatment for malaria when he accidentally discovered the dye.

Today's Google Doodle honors chemist Sir William Henry Perkin, who accidentally discovered the purple dye mauveine while trying to synthesize an anti-malarial drug. During the spring of 1856, most ...

The dye that seeped from simmered chips of logwood, brought from far Belize by buccaneers, turned wool a marvelous range of ...

He would call this, the first mass-produced synthetic dye, Mauveine, an “eye-wateringly vibrant purple” that became all the rage in fashion. Perkins was a rich man by 21, ...

June 24th has long been a date marked by monumental events that have shaped the course of history across the globe.One of the ...

Perkin’s purple, otherwise known as aniline purple, or mauveine, was the first synthetic dye. The synthesis transformed purple’s elite status, and probably saved the lives of a great many snails.