Indigofera Suffruticosa - A Lowcountry-based Cultivation and Processing Guide

This user-friendly handbook serves as the first how-to guide for indigo dye production in the Southeast. It is a compilation of teaching materials and curriculum from our on-farm workshops that offers farmers, service providers, textile artists and consumers the region a step-by-step process for processing indigo plants into dye. It also includes important information about the history of the indigo (Indigofera suffruticosa) that was historically grown as an 18th century cash-crop on plantations in the Southeast with the knowledge and labor of enslaved people from west Africa, where indigo had been grown as an important part of the culture for thousands of years.