Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Indigo Quilt

Feather-soft bedding made from organically grown cotton and natural indigo dyes is so rare it qualifies as a collector's item. Using that all-but-extinct vegetable dye - today, almost all indigo is synthetic - a cooperative of 50 artisans in remote northwest India hand-makes our collection. Drawing inspiration from local mandanas, decorative wall art inspired by the region's flora and fauna, the craftsmen and women fashion the bedding's border pattern to resemble linked old coins. This work furnishes critical income in an area long devastated by drought and plagued by acute poverty. Fair Trade Certified.


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