ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 9月19日 11時19分

In Teotitlán del Valle — a village near Oaxaca, #Mexico that’s known for its hand-woven rugs — a small group of textile artisans is working to preserve the use of plant and insect dyes. These techniques stretch back more than 1,000 years in the indigenous Zapotec tradition. But #TeotitlnDelValle isn’t the only place where a movement toward natural dyes is popping up. Textile artists in many countries are using them more and more, both as an attempt to revive ancient traditions and out of concerns about the environmental and health risks of synthetic dyes. Natural dyes are more expensive and harder to use, but they produce more vivid colors. As a child, Porfirio Gutiérrez hiked into the mountains above the village with his family each fall, collecting the plants they’d use to make dyes. “We’d talk about the stories of the plants,” the 39-year-old recalled. “Where they grew, the colors that they provide, what’s the perfect timing to collect them.” Among other things, they gathered pericón, a type of marigold that turned the woolen skeins a buttercream color, and tree lichen known as old man’s beard that dyed wool a yellow as pale as straw. Recently, @adrianazehbrauskas took this photo of #pericon and tree lichen gathered by Porfirio. Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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