Begin your week with a moment of discovery. Every Monday, The AGOBAY Weekly brings you a curated glimpse into our world – new experiences, inspiring creations and stories to savour.
It’s week 49 / 2025
This week, we welcome a new craft maker into AGOBAY’s select circle: Bamba Dyeing Factory, a fourth-generation workshop on the outskirts of Kyoto specialising in ‘katazome’, or hand-stencil dyeing. In an industry now shaped by mechanisation, their preservation of a completely manual, traditional Japanese craft led us to form an ongoing creative partnership and collaborate on our first exclusive product, furoshiki.This commitment to hand-dyeing echoes through another story in our magazine: a journey to Bali, where Tian Taru works with plant-based colour drawn from jungle-grown indigo, using a slow, immersive art rooted in the landscape. There, colour is coaxed from leaves, and shaped by the attentive hands of an artist and jeweller in much the same spirit.
