All about Indigo

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Learn to make an indigo vat, dye and cure an indigo dyed fabric.

Indigo is the black sheep in the family of natural dyes as it behaves so differently in every way of its making, application, and the way it develops from green to blue as if it was magic! And it is true that one needs a lifetime to learn all about indigo and still there would be mysteries. We have made a humble attempt to make indigo vat making simple and easy for you with a process we developed a few years back after a lot of research and experiments. And this is our humble effort to bring indigo dyeing into your lives and work in the most efficient way we could.

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For more info, watch our YouTube Video

Learn to make an indigo vat, dye and cure an indigo dyed fabric.

Indigo is the black sheep in the family of natural dyes as it behaves so differently in every way of its making, application, and the way it develops from green to blue as if it was magic! And it is true that one needs a lifetime to learn all about indigo and still there would be mysteries. We have made a humble attempt to make indigo vat making simple and easy for you with a process we developed a few years back after a lot of research and experiments. And this is our humble effort to bring indigo dyeing into your lives and work in the most efficient way we could.

DIY KIT: Beginner Level begins with a DIY Indigo and Shibori kit we send to you. It contains all materials, an illustrated manual, and a video tutorial for you to learn to make a vat by yourself and explore four beautiful Shibori techniques. It will surely make you fall in love with indigo and get you going for more!

ONLINE: Intermediate Level: This is an online module of three sessions, up to 40 minutes each session, that can be scheduled by you at your time and pace and is guided training by our trainer. Besides vat making, we teach you how to revive the vat, store it, make shades of indigo, mix indigo with other dyes, how to do even indigo dyeing on 1-2m, a special fabric preparation process, and some more about how to handle tie and dye techniques for larger fabrics. You have to buy materials by your own choice from our ColorShop

OFFLINE: Advanced Level- This is an offline workshop of 3 days, 2 hours per day, that happens at ColorAshram Centre in Ahmedabad. It’s apt for someone who wants to use indigo dyeing skills for how small-scale production or a professional application or is just deeply interested in the subject. In addition to learning how to make a proper vat, you would graduate to do indigo dyeing for 3-5m of fabric, garment dyeing, advanced level of fabric prep, more tie dye techniques for larger fabrics, use vat for painting, yarn dyeing and all practical issues of oxidizing and creating various strengths of vat for ombre dyeing, etc.