Dr Jenny Balfour-Paul | Dyer, researcher and author

Speaker : Dr Jenny Balfour- Paul, author of ’Indigo : Egyptian Mummies to Blue Jeans’ and ’Deeper than Indigo’ INDIGO SUTRA was an international event on the revival and resurgence of natural indigo. The event took place in Kolkata, India from 9-18 November 2017 to celebrate Indigo, the worlds oldest, most widely used and unique dyestuff and the only natural blue dye which takes its very name from ’India’. Comprising a seminar, workshops, demonstrations, exhibitions, documentary films, bazaar and textile tours, it attracted people from all over India and from every continent in the world. The idea was to create awareness of reviving the cultivation of indigo in Bengal and other places where it had stopped due to political unrest or other reasons and also to encourage the use of natural indigo dyeing using natural methods.