In this easy guide to dyeing with natural indigo, we cover natural indigo vat types and best practices when dyeing with indigo.

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Kids in summer art camp, ages 5-7, learn about the Japanese art of tie-die, called Shibori, using traditional indigo dye.

Pure Fructose - natural antioxidant for use in indigo dye vats using the organic and eco-friendly 1-2-3 vat method. This is supplied in a pack of 200g. This amount is ideal for combining with 50g indigo powder, and 100g Calcium hydroxide (Calx) when following the 1-2-3 method. We offer the indigo, and calcium hydroxide separately or you can purchase are all-in kit with instructions and pH test strips included. Fructose can be used as an alternative to Henna or Madder as a natural and eco-friendly antioxidant for use in indigo vat dyeing, particulary when following the indigo vat 1-2-3 method.

These threads are hand-dyed with indigo by a group of Japanese indigo farmers and artists named BUAISOU. ~~~ In a rural corner of Japan, there are a group of people who work together under the name BUAISOU who are completely dedicated to indigo. BUAISOU is comprised of a farm, dye studio, and design-studio and located in Tokushima prefecture, the historical center of indigo farming and processing in Japan. Every year they grow and harvest their own indigo, dry the leaves, and compost them. They combine this compost with wood ash lye, wheat bran, and water and use fermentation to create indigo vats. Within these vats, they dye every shade of blue, on items such as this sashiko thread. There are two options of thread thickness in each color: - THIN (20/4) - THICK (20/6) The thread used is milled by Daruma in Japan. Known for their high quality, Daruma threads are made of cotton with a high sheen and are tightly and evenly spun for durability. ~~~ FAQ: Which thickness of thread should I choose? A: Technically, the thinner thread goes well with lighter-weight fabrics, and vice versa for thicker threads and fabric. However, artistically, similar to choosing the thickness of your brush when painting, you can use either thickness for effect.

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100% plant dyes Shibori Indigo Scarf - Wave 1.Approx 30cm x 180cm 2.Approx 80cm x 230cm Materials: Organic cotton yarn Thickness: thin and soft, it is suitable of use in spring, summer and autumn. And it is not hot to use in summer. This Shibori Indigo Scarf hand made in Thealese, which using natural Indigo dyes and natural fiber fabrics! And They are dyed with absolute precision using Chinese tie-dye technique. Please wash separately before use, and for a few washes as Indigo may rub or stain other fabrics if left touching them while wet. Our products require a little love to take care of them, please hand wash in warm water! ***This listing is for the Shibori Indigo Scarf - Wave*** Please note due to different dye vats and technique variations your Cotton Fabric may look slightly different in colour and pattern to the one shown. Please allow 3 to 5 days for production from the order date. Made in Shenzhen, China Follow me on instagram @thealese www.instagram.com/thealese

Aboubakar Fofana is a master natural indigo dyer dedicated to sharing his passion for ancestral growing, weaving and dyeing skills throughout the world.

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The Sigmund outline tee is made on our garment dyed fabric. It’s starts off life as a white un-dyed  piece. After immersing the tee into the relevant dye vats, the colour migrates into contours of the garment, resulting in a faded effect on the exposed edges such as the seams and a deeper shade in the creases where the dye collects. This means that each piece will wash and age individually ,so no two will be the same!  The garment is a relaxed fit with a slightly higher neck.  The front banding uses a very simplistic yet effective Key line design with a light expander ink giving the Forty logo a tactile finish    - Relaxed fit  - 240 gsm heavy weight cotton  - Garment dyed cotton  - individual finish - Expander ink specialised finish

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We had another great workshop Sunday, and Amy Grief did a couple of outstanding pieces that I want to share with you. The first piece is indigo on cotton using a nearly exhausted vat. Instead of dry folding before clamping, Amy decided to see what happened if you wet the fabric before folding. I like the softened edges, and the way the dye was able to creep into the white areas. The 2nd photo is also indigo on cotton, but using a new vat. The piece was folded into a triangle, then accordion pleated in that shape, then two 2-inch ceramic tiles were clamped across the triangle before dyeing. The clamped bundles were immersed in the indigo vats for 3-4 minutes, then oxidized on the clothesline for 20 minutes before rinsing then unclamping. The 3rd photo is a close up detail of the 2nd photo. Great job, Amy . .

Unless you're working with muslin, chances are your fabric underwent some sort of dye process to achieve the colors and patterns that we love so much. There

Hiroyuki Shindo demonstrates the dyeing of arashi poles in his natural indigo vats, Miyama // PH: Julie T.

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100% plant dyes A set of 15 indigo blue Fabrics Quantity - A set of at least 15 pieces Material: 100% Cotton or Linen blend with cotton Weight - more than 800g/ 28oz Size - Mostly 40cm x 50cm (each piece), the smallest one is 30cm x 50cm *Random send the material of fabrics This a set of 15 indigo blue Fabrics hand made in Thealese, which using natural Indigo dyes and natural fiber fabrics! And They are dyed with absolute precision using Chinese tie-dye technique. Please wash separately before use, and for a few washes as Indigo may rub or stain other fabrics if left touching them while wet. Our products require a little love to take care of them, please hand wash in warm water! ***This listing is for the a set of 15 indigo blue Fabrics*** Please note due to different dye vats and technique variations your Fabric may look slightly different in colour and pattern to the one shown. Please allow 3 to 5 days for production from the order date. Made in Shenzhen, China Follow me on instagram @thealese www.instagram.com/thealese

Learn how to start indigo dyeing in this essential guide that covers the different types of indigo vats, fabric to dye, and how to mix a vat.

It is the end of the year. Once again instead of having a pricey "forgetting-the-old-year-party" at a restaurant the Tuesday students and I spent the day making miso at the house. 100 kg of miso. (Miso is fermented soybeans and is used in Japanese cooking. Plenty of vegetable protein.) We can remember the cold winter day and the nutritious fellowship we are to each other for the rest of the year when we have a simple bowl of miso soup. The beans are put in fresh stream water the night before and then boiled for six hours in the clean (no Mordants) dye pots. The soft beans are placed into a big zelkova mortar (That is used as a clothes hamper for the other 364 days of the year.) and squashed with a massive wooden pestle. Rice with the appropriate bacteria and salt are turned in by hand into the steaming mush. The miso mix is flattened into ceramic crock pots and left to ferment for six to ten months before it is ripe. Home made miso using the best beans and stream water is better than what you can buy. It makes it's way into almost every day's menu. We had some guests over to help with the taxing business of smushing beans by hand. Tohei and Shunji and friends. The day started with light snow. The fire was there to add comfort....to spoil us...then we ended up spoiling the fire... The cold and rain did not bother us. It was a perfect productive day. Great timing as a box from Austria with a big block of cheese, a bottle of schnapps, a chunk of smoked meat and an antique Persian carpet I picked up a few months back arrived by post to make the second party indoors complete. Shunji, it is always an honour to have you over. All this traditional Japanese textile work...weaving and silkworms etc. gets heavy. Knowing about the traditional techniques and aesthetics and all the other anthropological background to the textiles is important. What about making them relative to our lives now? That is where I respect your work as a designer. There are a few designers in Japan who do use the rich history of Japanese textiles in a fun and intelligent way. Shunji designed a fare share of this work at Kapital...the contemporary denim House of the Holy. Kapital Denim Images After a four ridiculously busy years I have some time off now. I was filled with self-loathing every time I bitched about being "crazy busy" the past years. Busy is good. But busy eats your soul. There needs to be some more work done on the yard and carpentry work here and there. The house is quiet and clean and warm inside while it is minus 5 outside. I spend the evenings with the doggies curled up nearby sketching and sewing in solitude. ( I am the one sketching and sewing not Momo and Geiger.) Yesterday was the last day for indigo dyeing at the house. The atmosphere was festive with even a hint of Christmas decoration outside (thank you Hiro...Christmas has been ignored here for twenty years and the slow revival pace is perfect....maybe even a Christmas tree one of these years.) and some frankincense (Thank you Cynthia in Dubai... there is still some left!) on the heater all day. A good proportion of the indigo grown this year is still on the stalks. Nothing better than a cold few hours by the fire stripping leaves off. The bed of straw in the barn is almost ready to start the three month composting of the indigo leaves. An ember from the fire landed in the dry leaves in the mortar, (taking an extra day off from clothes hamper duty.) and I smiled before leaping up to extinguish it before all that work went up in smoke. Just the wooden mortar of blue leaves was satisfying enough....why ask for more? It was a Leonard Cohen moment. I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch He said to me, "You must not ask for so much." And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?" Plenty of smiles even in the cold. Global warming was not doing it's job so a heater was needed to keep the behinds warm while hands froze in the indigo. Good hibernation indigo vats....see you in the spring.

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