Indigo dye (7 - Design for Ethical)

In my opinion, I have always felt strongly about fair-trade and believe that all products ought to be sourced ethically. I thought I would look into sourcing of Indigo Dye Textile. This is a product from my country which it's only right to understand exactly here it came from...

Indigo Dye Textile

The practice of traditional indigo dying, used by farmers and villagers in the past, had disappeared from Thailand in the past 50 years. Now, people turn to interested in this traditional techniques than before. A farmer and villagers find a materials from the depth of forests, searching for the elusive indico seed, to the local markets to find the experts of indigo dying from times gone by. 

Mae Teeta was established by Praphaiphan Daenchai in 1992, Sakolnakorn, Thailand. The product fro this studio was made from the indigo dyed textiles from art and craft the label's produced with personal passion from quality raw materials. Materials are 100% local harvested cotton and 100% natural indigo dyed, without synthetic chemicals added. 

Indigo is the "King of Dye". Natural indigo dye is an ancient wisdom dated back thousand of years. A variety of plants can yield indigo dyed or blue color. The primary indigo species used in North eastern. Thailand is botanically considers "true" indigo: Indigofera tinctoria. Indigo is one of the two natural plant dyes used techniques. while all other natural dye use heat to obtain color in to fabric.

They have a huge fair-trade in Thailand "OTOP". OTOP is from One Tambon One Product. It is a local entrepreneurship each area in Thailand. The aims to support the unique locally made and marketed products of each Thai tambon (subdistrict) all over Thailand.

References 

Mae Meeta. (n.d.) Mae Meeta Shop Organic clothes and textile. [Online].  Available from:

<http://maeteeta.com> [Accessed 4 January 2015]

Ninnart., (n.d.) One Tambon One Product (OTOP) A Showcase for Thai Folk Crafts. [Online] Available from: <http://www.thaiwaysmagazine.com/thai_article/2014_one_tambon_one_product/one_tambon_one_product.html> [Accessed 4 January 2015]