Natural dye intelligence · For every tradition

Every colour
you make
is a record.

The complete platform for natural dye practitioners across all traditions — Indian, Japanese, African, Andean, European. Document every experiment. Build your colour archive. Connect with dyers worldwide.

Madder · IndiaIndigo · JapanCochineal · AndesAdire · NigeriaWoad · Europe
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Madder
Rubia tinctorum
India · Turkey · Iran
Indigo
Indigofera / Persicaria
Japan · India · West Africa
Weld
Reseda luteola
Europe · North Africa
Cochineal
Dactylopius coccus
Mexico · Peru · Andes
Woad
Isatis tinctoria
Europe · Britain
Tannin
Oak gall · Myrobalan
Global
Marigold
Tagetes erecta
India · Mexico
Henna
Lawsonia inermis
Middle East · North Africa
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Traditions documented
75+
Platform features
87
Traditional colour names
∞
Experiments you can run
Global practice

Every tradition.
One platform.

Built from the ground up to hold the full depth of each tradition — not just generic fields. Indian kalamkari gets different data fields than Japanese katazome. Both get equal respect.

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Indian traditions
Resist block print
Kalamkari
Tie-dye · Bandhani
Natural vat
Mud resist
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Japanese traditions
Sukumo indigo vat 藍建て
Nahasome 生藍染め
Benibana 紅花
Katazome 型染め
Yuzen 友禅
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African traditions
Adire eleko wax resist
Bogolan mud dye
Kente weave + dye
Plant-ash mordant
Indigo vat
🇵🇪
Andean traditions
Cochineal on wool
Tara mordant
Chilca yellow
Indigo + cochineal
Ch'imi plant dye
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European traditions
Woad vat
Weld yellow
Madder red
Oak gall black
Weld + indigo overdye
Platform

Not a notes app.
An intelligence system.

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Experiment archive
Plant, mordant, fibre, temperature, time, fastness. Every dye test documented. Reproducible forever.
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Shade library
UJ-coded colour system. Lab values, traditional name lookup from 5 global traditions. Publish to the network.
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Formula engine
Mordant ratios, bath calculator, recipe scaling by fabric weight. Track formula families across seasons.
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Material sourcing
Provenance chain from farm to studio. Batch tested before it ships. Fastness records per harvest.
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Global discover
Publish a shade. Find dyers working with the same plants across traditions. Cross-technique ΔE comparison.
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Practice journal
Calendar view, mood tracking, season observation. Link each entry to your active batch or experiment.

From plant to archive.

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Sourced by season
Farm, harvest date, batch. Traced from origin.
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Tested before shipping
Fastness rated. Yield documented. Rejected batches don't ship.
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Ships with a record
QR code links to the full test. You see what was approved.
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You run your experiment
Every test joins your archive. Links to batch automatically.
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Published to the network
One click. Your result enriches the global colour record.
Global colour network

Publish a shade.
Reach every dyer.

When you publish a colour, it becomes discoverable by every studio on the network — across all traditions. Indian madder sits next to Japanese benibana. Andean cochineal next to African indigofera.

Filter by plant source. Find dyers in your tradition. Compare fastness results across continents.

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Madde
Indig
Weld
Cochi
Woad
Oak g
Marig
Henna
Lac
Turme
Woad
Cutch
Pomeg
Weld+
Pale
Kamal

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