Colour in Textiles

Hayao Miyazaki special "Only Yesterday" is an animation based on the rural area of Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.
In this animation I first notified the traditional dyeing industry of Japan. The production of safflower-dye (Beni), which is vivid crimson, is not an easy task from picking the safflowers with bared hands, to oxidate with water, dry under the sun and compress the mortar to get the dye.

Recently a Japan cosmetic company introduced a new lipstick with safflower as the raw material. This lipstick is very expensive.

Source: Oriental daily

Actually the dyeing industry of Japan is now facing a hard time due to the dramatic increase in production. Properly this will lead to shortage of dyes for high quality blue and black dyeing.

Source: Ming Pao