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Tengui cloth – gradient

This long and narrow rectangular piece of cloth has been dyed with the use of a natural blue indigo dye made from an indigo plant from Japan. To get the gradient nuances of indigo colour, the artisan will plunge slowly and gradually the cloth into the barrel, staying longer to get the deepest blue.
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Felix Nai
Singapore, Singapore
With a background in apparel design, Felix Nai became fascinated in natural indigo dyeing in 2014. He attended his first dye workshop and from there s ...
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