Crafted from our in-house proprietary material coloured by and containing genuine traditional Japanese Indigo dye, Craft Indigo is a beautiful combination of rich blue and white, reminiscent of waves on the sea, or the sky and clouds.
Those familiar with fabrics and dyes will undoubtedly have heard of Aizome, aJapanese traditional art of indigo dying which dates back over 1000 years.
Using a dye compound from a manufacturer that has been in continuous operation in Japan for over 200 years, producing dye and dyed goods, we hand-grind the dye compound using a mortar and pestle and special media until a beautiful blue is achieved, and use this to colour one part of the resin mixture. This is then marbled with an opaque white resin mixture to mimic the traditional interplay between blue and white present in aizome goods.
If you look very closely, you can see tiny (less than 1 micron) particles of the dye compound in the pen, giving the blue a lovely speckled look. The resin is both dyed, and contains raw dye!
Technical specs:
Length (capped): 105.5 mm
Length (posted): 117.0 mm
Length (unposted): 69.0 mm
Section length: 24.5 mm
Section diameter: 13.3 → 10.3 → 11.9 mm
Max diameter of pen: 18.3 mm
Nib unit: #6 JoWo Stainless Steel
Converter accepted: Kaweco Mini Folding Converter / short international standard cartridge
Crafted from our in-house proprietary material coloured by and containing genuine traditional Japanese Indigo dye, Craft Indigo is a beautiful combination of rich blue and white, reminiscent of waves on the sea, or the sky and clouds.
Those familiar with fabrics and dyes will undoubtedly have heard of Aizome, aJapanese traditional art of indigo dying which dates back over 1000 years.
Using a dye compound from a manufacturer that has been in continuous operation in Japan for over 200 years, producing dye and dyed goods, we hand-grind the dye compound using a mortar and pestle and special media until a beautiful blue is achieved, and use this to colour one part of the resin mixture. This is then marbled with an opaque white resin mixture to mimic the traditional interplay between blue and white present in aizome goods.
If you look very closely, you can see tiny (less than 1 micron) particles of the dye compound in the pen, giving the blue a lovely speckled look. The resin is both dyed, and contains raw dye!
Technical specs:
Length (capped): 105.5 mm
Length (posted): 117.0 mm
Length (unposted): 69.0 mm
Section length: 24.5 mm
Section diameter: 13.3 → 10.3 → 11.9 mm
Max diameter of pen: 18.3 mm
Nib unit: #6 JoWo Stainless Steel
Converter accepted: Kaweco Mini Folding Converter / short international standard cartridge
