RESOURCES
Indigo pigment on a Persicaria Tinctoria leaf
Image Credit: Christine Noel James copyright 2020
Suppliers/Studios/Cultural Resources:
Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission
Baltimore Natural Dye Initiative
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
Aboubakar Fofana -Indigo Farm Mali
Buaisou - Japan
Vibrant Valley Farm - Oregon
Books/Journals/Movies/Historical Resources:
Blue Alchemy: Stories of Indigo- Mary Lance
The Untold History of Blue Jeans, Indigo, and Slavery
Diasporic Africa: A Reader- Michael A. Gomez
Daughters of the Dust- Julie Dash
WPA Slave Narratives Collection- Library of Congress
Culture of Indigo in Asia: Plant Product Power - Kapila Vatsyayan
Indigo Picture Book- Kusakabe Nobuyuki
Woad: Field to Fashion- Ian Howard
Blue Biographies: A Seed to Story Interview Series-Indigo Pigment Extraction Methods Group
Indigo Seed to Dye- Dorothy Miller
African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent- John Gillow
The Art and Science of Natural Dyes -Catharine Ellis and Joy Boutrup
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
Online Facebook Communities:
Indigo Pigment Extraction Methods