Colors of Niigata: From Natures Palette
Colors of Niigata 新潟の色, the famous colors of Niigata are thought to have been from the colors of the snowy fields and sun-bleaching would bring out bright colors that would be part of its landscape and history of the city as well as its color-dyeing artisans. There are various ways to reproduce the colors of Niigata with various approaches as an artist sees it through their vision with the process timing, dyeing process, color choice, and its composition. When most people think of colors of Niigata they associate it with things like rice fields, agriculture, lush greenery, mountain shades, summer vegetables, snow country, and sunsets or even salmon. This makes the most popular colors: green, white, orange, yellow, blue, light blue, teal, golden yellow, yellow green, brown, and red. Plant-dyeing, the importance is that technique of the person dyeing the colors into a thread, the length of time the thread is in the color dye, and the artist's experience with the plants have a singl...