Dipped green.
Risen blue.
Cloth leaves the vat green and turns blue in your hands — the slow magic of a living indigo. No synthetics, no shortcuts.
Green in the vat.
Blue in the air.
In a reduced vat the dye is leuco-indigo — soluble, and yellow-green. The moment the wet cloth meets air, oxygen turns it back to indigotin: blue. Every dip is short; the colour is built, not poured. Scroll, and watch the cloth breathe blue.
A slow blue.
The vat
Composted indigo leaf, wood ash lye, wheat bran and warmth. Kept alive and stirred — a vat is fed, not mixed.
The dip
The cloth is folded, bound or clamped, then lowered gently. Short dips, no splashing — air is the enemy inside the vat.
The air
Out it comes, green and dripping. In the open air it oxidises before your eyes, greening to blue over a minute.
The build
Dip, air, rest — again. Each pass deepens the blue and locks it in. Depth is patience, not concentration.
Cloths that hold the blue.
Each piece is bound by hand and dipped to depth. No two resist the dye the same way.
A vat, a window, and time.
We keep a living fermentation vat and dye by hand — shibori, boro and plain cloth for those who want real blue. Everything is natural indigo, dipped and aired in daylight. We take few commissions, and we never rush a colour.
Ask for blue.
Tell us the cloth, the depth, the use — we will send a swatch dipped to your shade and a price.