T-shirts. We love a good T-shirt we can live in — especially the kind where every intention, every thought behind the design, is made by hand. Designs originate from Zazie — an artist who experiments with weaving and printing techniques — and from Nara, who dyes them. It is a collaboration that feels as natural as their work. There is a gentle inner rebel in both Nara and Zazie, an inner wilderness, striving for peace in every shirt they make. Peace in practice, in repetition. Raw materials: organic cotton, leaves, fruits, glutinous rice. An intimate connection with nature that makes the two of them students of the wild. Every weekend at Jingjai Market, they sell the shirts. Nara didn’t always do this. He was once a published author and journalist with years of experience. His grandmother was from the Isan region of North East Thailand, where indigo dyeing was deeply rooted in the cultural practice. The dye-making process is labor-intensive, involving fermentation and oxidation, and each piece of fabric can take weeks to produce. Nara picked up the craft, walked with it, and has never looked back. Nature is wild. Watch closely. The small movements, though subtle, are a loud call to notice the environment and atmosphere. Their home studio sits away from the city. The only intruders are the bugs and mosquitoes. Pots of indigo dye, shirts hanging to dry, a cat with a backstory. When you wear their T-shirt, you become part of the land. And you are wearing a reminder to be different, a reminder that craft is alive, that you can walk on the wild side. The weather will keep changing, and so will their shirts, and we will too, just as the chameleons know where to go to turn blue.
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