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🗓️ 10 December 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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For the most part, we tend to keep our clothes relatively clean and avoid spills and rips and tears. But denim is so hard-wearing and hard-working that it just kind of amasses more and more signs of wear. So you can learn a lot from observing an old pair of blue jeans.
Articles of Interest is a show about what we wear, created by Avery Trufelman; a six-part series within* 99% Invisible*, looking at clothing.
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0:50.6 | So when I dunk it in you'll see like I'll just try to make minimal splashes |
0:55.5 | You |
0:57.5 | Artists and curator Luccaza Brampman for eSimo. You're gonna put on some gloves and put things in yeah |
1:03.7 | We're in her backyard in Oakland making an indigo bath |
1:07.1 | Which is to say we are making a natural blue dye using powder from the indigo plant and it's kind of complicated |
1:13.6 | This is actually our second time trying to make indigo because the first time we didn't get the ratio right. It's tricky |
1:21.3 | Yes, I have better help in it this time |
1:24.2 | Luccaza begins by stirring the indigo powder and the other ingredients together in this vat of hot water |
1:30.0 | Moving it very slowly because we don't want the |
1:33.5 | Oxygen to get into the vat you have to stir it kind of lovingly and slowly and then if you actually do it right and all goes according to plan |
1:41.7 | It's amazing |
1:46.3 | The indigo mixture seems to come alive in the water it starts fizzing and glistening as you stir it |
1:52.5 | It's so psychedelic like these metallic shimmery bubbly chunks are swirling around in water |
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