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potato quality indigo for your viewing pleasure. the manjistha on the selvedge is sex on wheels.

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as this is an indigo stan account but there has been precious little indigo on this account recently

have some indigo!!

image 1: in the foreground, a stack of several bolts of indigo fabric, some of which have a yellow selvedge. in the background, a stack of alizarine red fabric, with some packaging plastic still attached. the sun shines from behind both.

image 2: a close-up of "self-checked" indigo fabric folded over itself, in which the indigo is in a checked pattern with itself. the selvedge is alizarine red. it is placed on top of a bundle of fabric packed away, sealed together with masking tape

image 3: a close up of three bolts of alizarine red stacked on top of each other. the first has an indigo selvedge. the second has no selvedge. the third has a yellow selvedge.

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sometimes i log into tumblr to see the raging tide of victorian fashion (and only victorian fashion) as fashion history, and then i am reminded that indian fashion is not history. 

handloom is the present. i am wearing it now. it is casual and formal, and it has never been brought back into style because it has never been out of style. the ragged indigo corner of my veshti - handspun and handwoven in srikakulam - has more history in it than most victorian gowns, and i should not forget it. 

neither should you.