Crafts Council Nederland invited four maker-designers to travel to Kyushu, Japan, to explore the shared heritage of the Netherlands and Japan in the field of indigo dye during a crafts exchange.
Emerging talents Liselore Frowijn and Adrianus Kundert, along with the more experienced maker-designers Maaike Gottschal and Aliki van der Kruijs, apprenticed with Japanese masters in September 2016 and explored new applications for indigo.
The results were presented during Dutch Design Week from October 22 to 30, 2016, at the Kazerne in the center of Eindhoven, and in November at the old Dutch trading post Dejima in Japan.
