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Japanese Sukumo Indigo Starter Kit

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Japanese Sukumo Indigo Starter KitJapanese Sukumo Indigo Starter Kit (mini) Liquid Volume: 1. 2 L (5 cups) Container Volume: 1. 5 L (6 1 3 cups) Introductory Pricing Ready to Ship Around Aug 15 Included in kit: sukumo (50g) wood ash (130g) shell lime (50g) fusuma (wheat bran) (50g) Product Leaflet: sukumo seed to dye story one cotton tenugui (for dye swatches) * An established vat used every 2 3 days can dye upto 10 light weight cotton bandana or tenugui a medium blue. How To Video

Japanese Sukumo Indigo Starter Kit (mini)

Liquid Volume: 1.2 L (5 cups) |  Container Volume: 1.5 L (6 1/3 cups)

Introductory Pricing
Ready to Ship Around Aug 15

Included in kit:

sukumo (50g)
wood ash (130g)
shell lime (50g)
fusuma (wheat bran) (50g)
Product Leaflet: sukumo seed to dye story
one cotton tenugui (for dye swatches)

* An established vat used every 2-3 days can dye upto 10 light-weight cotton bandana or tenugui a medium blue.

How-To Video Link (English)

Facebook Group for Sukumo Kit Users: A community for questions and trouble-shooting

About
Sukumo indigo and its dye vat preparation are centuries-old practices developed in Japan by Ai-shi, the indigo farmer–sukumo maker. The work and art of Ai-shi are extremely rigorous and time-consuming. Today, only five to six aging master Ai-shi remain. Thus, the supply of sukumo is scarce. 

Now Kenta Watanabe carries on the “seed to dye” sukumo indigo-making tradition. He has hatched the Japanese Sukumo Indigo Starter Kit product to give contemporary textile artists an opportunity to care for the microorganisms in a sukumo indigo vat at home to enjoy totally organic blue colors. 

Kenta Watanabe is a next-gen ai-shi: indigo farmer, Sukumo indigo maker, and dyer based in Tokushima, Japan. Kenta sought an apprenticeship with Osamu Nii, a sixth-generation master ai-shi. Rowland Riketts, also apprenticed with Nii. 

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