It has really been a special summer for us! Ever since KAL was started our idea was to be as close as possible to our textiles, to their making and finishing. It was obvious that all these things don't come easy and we couldn't do it all at the beginning - from sourcing wool, to spinning and weaving, dyeing and stitching of our garments. All these things take time and luck
Shades of red, blue, yellow - it's been quite a discovery this summer in Assam! From around 5 shades of last year and this summer we went up to 28 this August which is a big step for us. We would like to show you those colors and we are always happy to hear your feedback. The main dyes we have used are (in order from light to dark) Tea, Teak, Onion, Jackfruit, Turmeric, Madder, Indian Madder (Manjistha), Lac, Indigo. Different kinds of mordants / dye modifiers we used are alum, myrobalan and iron. Nice surprises we had were definitely the coral and salmon shades from madder and manjistha, the variety of onion shades, the beautiful Assamese indigo and chai...
