(13 Dec 2024)
THAILAND INDIGO CLOTHING
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Nakon Sakhon, Thailand – 16 November 2024
1. Pan of Sakon Nakhon Walking Street night market, with very few customers
2. Close of folded indigo clothing for sale at market
3. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Taikram, an indigo clothing vendor:
"Before COVID there were quite a lot of people here. They did many activities, but when COVID came here the tourists stopped coming. Because we are not a main destination for the tourists, they rarely come here now. Therefore, we had to go visit the tourists so they would know about our work and know that we make it ourselves, it is handmade, we dye it ourselves. We don’t go (to factories other places) and buy other things and re-sell them here. If they want to come to this street they can on Saturday and Sunday, we have good prices."
4. Mid of Taikram showing textiles from another vendor’s stall
5. Wide of KramSakon clothing store
6. Various of a woman measuring indigo cloth on a wooden weaving machine
7. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Mew Namon, owner of KramSakon store:
"This is the indigo plant. The indigo plant is in the same family as the bean. It grows for about three months. After the three months has passed, we will harvest the indigo and soak it in water. There are two or three kinds of indigo, this one is Kram Ngaw (curly seeds). Another type is Kram Drong (straight seeds). Kram Drong will not only have straight seeds but thicker leaves. Right now, this one has seeds on it you can see here, if it is like this, it is Kram Gnaw. When it is finished, we will harvest the plant and soak it in water overnight. The pigment will come out from the leaf and be a blue-green colour."
8. Close of indigo plant with the seeds
9. Mew Namon with gloved hand showing indigo cream, UPSOUND (Thai) Mew Namon, owner of KramSakon:
“This cream of the indigo is important as a food for the pot of indigo to produce colour."
10. Close of Namon mixing the pot of indigo dye by hand
11. UPSOUND (Thai) Mew Namon, owner of KramSakon:
"This indigo is our own product. I’ve had my own business for 10 or so years. This one is 7 or 8 years old, and that one over there we are using after 10 years. For the villager, the pot can be used for 30-40 years because it is passed from generation to generation. At one grandma’s house, she is 80 years old and she still dyes clothes. If it is living, you can use it."
12. Close, pan of gloves, tie-dye cloth and dying tools
13. Various of a woman putting rubber bands on white tote bags before dying them
14. Mid of Namon tie-dyeing a T-shirt in one of the indigo vats
15. Various of Namon working on the design of the shirt, cutting off the rubber bands
16. Mid of Namon showing the shirt’s design
17. Various of Namon washing the excess indigo dye off the shirt after dyeing it, and putting her gloves down
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Sakon Nahkon, Thailand – 17 November 2024
18. Close of a small indigo plant with small pink flowers
19. Mid of a taller indigo plant with leaves and seeds
20. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Nuttaphong Utakavapee, Agricultural officer in the department of irrigation at the Phu Phan Royal Development Study Center:
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Sakon Nakhon, Thailand – 18 November 2024
21. Pan of indigo vats stored behind a hotel where people can come to stay and dye clothes
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Bangkok, Thailand – 29 November 2024
22. Exterior of Thai store Lai Thong that sells indigo-dyed clothes
23. Close of store sign
24. Various of indigo clothes
25. Various of store owner Thanyapat Kloytamwong
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