Coasters indigo, Neko

High quality 100% cotton coasters produced in the city of Chita, Aichi Prefecture. Hand-decorated by Chota-san – Kanagawa Prefecture – with natural Japanese indigo blue dye using the traditional textile dyeing technique called Katazome. Kata means stencil and Zome (or Some) dyeing. The blue indigo color is a plant pigment obtained from a shrub belonging to the Fabaceae family called Indigofera Tinctoria, and is used for natural dyeing.