Our Aizome Dye Challenge

Recently we tried Aizome- Japanese traditional Indigo Dyeing.

We chose white T-shirts to dye. I decided to dye it with ‘tie-dye’ pattern. Chihiro chose to dye it with gradation pattern.

And it turned out that gradation pattern (which needs to be done via gradual dyeing) is far more difficult than tie-dye pattern (which needs to be done via throwing T-shirt into the vase below full of Indigo dye). So, Chihiro really struggled and in the end I helped her a lot 😉

Unlike artificial dye, Ai dye is natural, so that you have to dip things you want to dye into Ai dye again and again and again and again. And then- you can see really beautiful indigo blue like below.

So, today, we went outside wearing the T-shirts we dyed. And I thought: Maybe one day this beautiful dyed T-shirt will fades away, but hopefully our love will never fade out.