RESOURCES
Indigo pigment on a Persicaria Tinctoria leaf
Image Credit: Christine Noel James copyright 2020
Supplier/Studio:
World Shibori Network Foundation
Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission
Baltimore Natural Dye Initiative
International Center for Indigo Culture
Iris Sullivan Daire - Dream Bird Studio
Seeds:
Gardens/Farms:
The Blue Light Junction - Maryland
The Indigo Garden Project- Illinois
Conservatoire des plantes tinctoriales des Lauris- France
UC Berkely Botancical Garden - California
Janice Ford Memorial Garden - Colorado
Buaisou - Japan
Vibrant Valley Farm - Oregon
High Hog Farm - Georgia
Books/Journals/Movies/Historical Resources:
Blue Alchemy: Stories of Indigo- Mary Lance
The Untold History of Blue Jeans, Indigo, and Slavery
Daughters of the Dust- Julie Dash
Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World -Catherine McKinley
In Pursuit of Color - Lauren MacDonald
Inside Indigo- Julia Tabakhova
WPA Slave Narratives Collection- Library of Congress
Culture of Indigo in Asia: Plant Product Power - Kapila Vatsyayan
Indigo Picture Book- Kusakabe Nobuyuki
Indigo- Douglas Luhanko & Kerstin Neumüller
Woad: Field to Fashion- Ian Howard
Indigo: the Color that Changed the World - Catherine Legrand
Blue Biographies: A Seed to Story Interview Series-Indigo Pigment Extraction Methods Group
Indigo Seed to Dye- Dorothy Miller
Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing
African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent- John Gillow
The Art and Science of Natural Dyes -Catharine Ellis and Joy Boutrup
Awa: Natural Indigo (English translation)- Miyoko Kawahito
The Dye Plants of Awa (English translation)- Akiyama Seiko
Natural Dye DVD series- Michel Garcia
Naural Dyes: sources, Tradition, technology and science -Dominique Cardon
Indigo: Egyptian Mummies to Blues Jeans -Jenny Balfour Paul
Singing the Blues - John Marshall
Salvation Through Soy - John Marshall