🌿 INDIGO WEEK 2026
Missed Indigo Week live? You can still join us.
All Indigo Week recordings are now available inside the Natural Dyers & Growers Academy, allowing you to work through the programme at your own pace while still benefiting from community support, live discussions and ongoing indigo-focused events.
Across Indigo Week, we explored indigo from many different perspectives — history, culture, cultivation, fermentation, vat making and practical dyeing.
Bringing together historians, researchers, artists and practitioners from around the world, Indigo Week offers a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of indigo as both a colour and a living process.
In addition to the recordings, members are invited to join our continuing indigo activities, including live dyeing sessions, vat troubleshooting, the Sukumo Make-Along and future Academy events.
🌿 INCLUDED IN YOUR MEMBERSHIP
✔ Full access to all Indigo Week recordings
✔ Access to the Full Membership Resource Library
✔ Live Indigo Dyeing Session
✔ Indigo Vat Troubleshooting Session
✔ Ongoing vat support inside the Academy
✔ Access to the Sukumo Make-Along
✔ Full Academy Membership for one year
✔ Garden Series & recordings
✔ DYEWORKS Conversations & recordings
✔ Future live Academy events
🌿 INDIGO WEEK RECORDINGS
Dominique Cardon
Since the Dawn of Time: Purple and Indigo Across Cultures
A fascinating exploration of indigo and purple dyes through history, archaeology and global trade traditions.
Rosa Chang
Indigo Shade Map: Stories of Indigo, Culture and Community
Exploring indigo through storytelling, cultural connection and contemporary practice.
Britt Boles
Sukumo Making: Process, Practice and Material Transformation
An in-depth introduction to the traditional Japanese process of producing sukumo.
Britt Boles
The Sukumo Fermentation Vat: Structure, Management and Practice
Understanding, building and maintaining the living sukumo vat.
Jennifer Lienhard
Live Indigo Vat Making
Step-by-step demonstrations of:
- Fermentation Vat
- Organic Fruit Sugar Vat
- Mineral (Iron) Vat
Tristan Lienhard
Indigo Research & Plant Trials
Insights into indigo cultivation, processing and variety trials.
🌿 CONTINUING THE JOURNEY
Indigo Week was designed as the beginning of a longer exploration rather than a standalone event.
Members can continue their learning through:
- Ongoing vat support and troubleshooting
- The Academy community
- The Sukumo Make-Along
- Future indigo-focused sessions
🌿 LEARN MORE
Before joining, you may enjoy reading some of our Indigo Week articles:
- From Sukumo to Living Vat: Completing the Indigo Journey with Britt Boles
- The Organic Fruit Sugar Vat: A Different Path to Blue
- Indigo Week presenter articles and session summaries
Happening Around Apple Oak Fibre Works – Tagged "Indigo Week" – AppleOak FibreWorks
🌿 FULL MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
Indigo Week is available through the Natural Dyers & Growers Academy.
Annual Membership: €65
Your membership includes Indigo Week recordings, Academy events, resource libraries, discussions and ongoing learning throughout the year.
