Limited edition naturally dyed Snakes and Ladders Bali game

We’ve been excited to work (slowly but surely!) on a range of naturally dyed Snakes and Ladders Bali games over the past year with Threads of Life dye studio.

We now have three colors- jackfruit yellow, Ceriops rust and indigo blue.

Threads of Life makes natural dyes with colourfast traditional Indonesian dye recipes using sustainably sourced dye plants and plant mordants, and without synthetic modifiers. All the work is by hand, from the scouring, through the dyeing and finishing.

A Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) 100% sustainably certified forest concession in Papua supplies the Ceriops tagal bark extract used to achieve rich red-brown earth tones. Instead of using industrial alum, this Ceriops dye is fixed with a plant-mordant of fallen Symplocos cochinchinensis leaves collected by community harvester groups we have established in Flores.