An alternative way to utilize your indigo & woad pigments.

Learn how to make a simple & incredibly resilient plant blue pigment that is ancient in human nano-technological creation, & purely magical to watch take form.

Transform Indigo or Woad Plant color into a Clay based pigment that creates a spectacularly stable color (as evidenced by archaeological findings) that can withstand the degradation factors all plant based dyes & pigments must tolerate as they travel through time on earth.

Blue clay pigment can be used to make paint with a whole variety of natural and synthetic binders, as well as pastels, crayons, oil sticks, paint for wood, ceramics, handmade paper & murals. I’ve also used home made blue clay pigment for applications like mixing into homemade playdough.

This method of making a hardy blue clay compound can employ any indigo or woad extract (even homegrown!) and will feel miraculousas it makes use of the tiniest amounts of blue pigment stretching the color payoff to the max. A little bit of precious plant blue color really can go a long long way! And the resulting color range possible: from sky to cerulean, turquoise & teal is sublime.

This technique is often referred to as •Maya Blue• because of archaeological focus on ancient murals & objects in central Mexico where it had been employed for centuries.

Learn the whole process including resources for pigment & clay, science & history behind this plant/mineral compound & step by step guidance through the whole process.

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