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Make a hand-painted indigo-dyed tea mat
Make a hand-painted indigo-dyed tea mat
Experience in trip content: Indigo Dyeing
Duration and time of day: morning and afternoon
Age suggestion: Age 5+
Destination distance to Dali: 2km
Meeting point: 要物手造
Guide with dog: The guide has no dog
You need to bring: No
Fee includes: Material, Tools, Tea Break, Finished Work
Not included:
Wizard foreign language: English
WeChat: NeedBluegoods
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Go to WeChat Mini Program to book: 做一件手绘蓝染茶垫
Due to payment barriers for foreign travelers, we currently offer "free booking". Please pay by WeChat or Alipay one day before the event.
Pick-up assistance
Pick-up assistance
For customers with language barriers, we are happy to arrange a taxi to pick you up from your hotel to the meeting point. You pay the actual fee.
One person makes a trip
One person makes a trip
For most experiences, once booked and confirmed, the trip will go ahead even if there is only one guest, except for some experiences (such as long-haul tours) where a minimum number of guests is specified.
Refund Policy
Refund Policy
Before the experience starts:
- Within 12 hours: 30% refund
- 12 to 24 hours: 50% refund
- 24 to 48 hours: 70% refund
- More than 48 hours: 100% refund
- After the event starts: No refunds
- If cancelled due to weather conditions: Full refund
Yunnan, where we have lived for many years, has a long tradition of indigo dyeing. Surrounded by Bai ethnic traditions such as "tie-dye" (indigo dyeing technique), we are not satisfied with staying in Dali. We have traveled to countries and regions with rich plant dyeing culture, such as Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and Guizhou, to learn various techniques and plant dyeing traditions. From this, we have refined and developed our plant dyeing system course.
The dyeing techniques we share are very different from what you learn in college or in an ivory tower. This is because we have traveled all over the countryside for many years, collecting pure blue mud from mountain people and wild dyes from the fields. These techniques are practical skills, learned in real life, based on survival and practicality. Tradition is the inheritance of life, not a repetition of the past. So we keep collecting, summarizing, practicing, innovating... and keep moving forward to create, hoping to share these simple but charming dyeing techniques with you.
During the course, we will collect flowers, leaves, fruits, and roots from nature, or use everyday objects as tools to assist in the indigo dyeing process, and combine tie-dyeing, batik, stencil dyeing and other techniques to create various patterns and textures on the fabric. The collision of different materials gives the fabric a unique and charming texture, just like a traveler constantly crossing unknown borders and encountering magical scenery. The beauty is hidden in the fabric, just like ginseng, cinnamon, and vanilla blending their essence into food.
Take your time, because time is magic, it makes the craft become exquisite and makes your hands become blue.