Ubiquitous blue
an audience at the spinning wheel
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.... and in the street below....... 100metres or more of threads....
... are seperated and wound onto a spool
the threads were tightly wound....
... teamwork ensured that no thread got crossed!
.. everyone seemed to be having fun. (we didn't stop although were invited, for the feast that followed.)
Weaving on the loom in the front (?only) room.(Yintan village)
Dyeing in Zhauxing (肇兴)
Hubble bubble - Indigo on the brew (Zhauxing)
Indigo dyed cloth drip drying
Once dyeing and drying is complete, the cloth is hammered! (for hours on end as the sounds reverberate through the village)
.. the effect is an amazing sheen on one side of the cloth
... see the sheen! (Yintan village)
Hammer in the morning (7.30am from my bedroom window!!) ....
. and hammer all day!
A Zhauxing alarm clock!
Indigo is a plant based dye, there were fish in this water (and they weren't blue)!
A dong drum tower beside an indego pool!
Just been out for the greens! (standard issue agricultural plimsoles .....& onions)
A loom in a front room (Yintan)
Weaving in Yintan.
