


It is hardly what you might call warm but the indigo vat looks as if it will be as popular as ever this year. Hitomi came over this morning to do some dying with friends. A slight warm breeze and some freshly arrived birds twittering away.
Living in a small mountain village just outside of Tokyo, I grow a crop of indigo every year and process the leaves into dye using traditional methods. I also breed silk moths, raise the silkworms and then reel/spin the silk from the cocoons. The silk is then dyed with natural dyes and finally woven on traditional Japanese looms. I run several ten-day live-in workshops a year at the old farmhouse here in Japan focusing on the Japanese use of indigo. Contact me for information.
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