The Thread
One dye, carried by different hands
Indigo is a colour that binds the cultures that have practiced this art-form across millenia. Long before synthetic dye existed, communities across Asia and Africa were independently fermenting the same leaf into the same deep blue — different plants, different climates, the same patient chemistry, passed hand to hand.
This page is a look at three places where that lineage is still alive today — working studios and dye pits with generational continuity, run by people who learned the craft from the person before them, and are teaching it to the person after.
