The World of Chinese

LIVE AND LET DYE

一间植物染工坊的山中­四季

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Plant-based textile dyeing has a 5,000-year history in China, but the skill has all but disappeare­d in today's industrial­ized society. Standing against this trend is the Rustic Indigo Dyehouse, a workshop in the bamboo forests of Sichuan that continues to painstakin­gly hand-print cloths with colors and patterns from nature—while promoting an idyllic, slow rural lifestyle to a growing body of fans.

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