2014/09/25

Green Tea Scarf

My mother is a dyer. Especially she does tie-dyeing, and ties again, again and again……unbelievably A LOT. 

She uses chemical dye for Kimono. 





















For scarfs, she uses natural dyestuff such as roses, dandelions, onions, Ai (Chinese indigo). 





This is one of her works, which is dyed with "Green tea", camellia and dandelion. Yes, tea can be a good dye. As a tea-lover, I should keep it. I would love to. And this is mine now.






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