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| Turning walnuts into dye |
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| preparing the scarves for the dye |
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| Paper used for temples |
During our last trip to Kyoto, we had a tour of Yoshioka Sachio's studio; it was an enormous labyrinth with someone busy at work in every room. Sachio dyes all the paper and fabric used in the temples using all natural dyes. We watched a huge batch of silk string dyed in indigo, and he let us all dye little scarves in cochineal. I forgot how much I love working with textiles!
