| Ainu |
Ainu Kaparamip (Dark), Ainu Attus (Light) |
The appliqué robes of the Ainu of Hokkaido: bold appliqué keywords, red method declarations at the openings, green thread strings, yellow fields and blue-violet numbers, on indigo cotton or elm-bark cloth. |
| Aizome |
Aizome Kachi (Dark), Aizome Kamenozoki (Light) |
Japanese indigo dyeing in a single hue: hierarchy by depth of dye, with sashiko-white declarations, green-leaning asagi strings and violet-leaning kon numbers. |
| Bengal |
Bengal Baluchari (Dark), Bengal Laal Paar (Light) |
Bengal's looms and Durga Puja: aparajita keywords, Baluchari-magenta strings, paddy-green methods and terracotta types, on wine-dark Baluchari silk or a white laal paar sari with a red border. |
| Danqing |
Danqing Ink (Dark), Danqing Paper (Light) |
Chinese painting pigments, led by the blue-green landscape: azurite keywords, malachite strings, cinnabar methods and gamboge types on inkstone or aged xuan paper, with Spock blocks marked like red seal stamps. |
| Edo |
Edo Cha (Dark), Edo Nezumi (Light) |
The forty-eight browns and hundred greys of Edo-period dress: muted indigo keywords, brown literals, tinted-grey names, and a hidden red lining for the caret and labels. |
| Gujarat |
Gujarat Navratri (Dark), Gujarat Rann (Light) |
Gujarat's Navratri, Rann of Kutch and patola silk: parrot-green keywords, patola-red types, turmeric methods and garba-pink strings, on a mirror-worked night or the white salt desert. |
| Hmong |
Hmong Batik (Dark), Hmong Hemp (Light) |
The batik and cross-stitch of the Hmong pleated skirt: names in the tones of indigo batik, with pink keywords, lime strings and orange numbers from the cross-stitch, on indigo or undyed hemp. |
| Holi |
Holi Night, Holi Day |
The Indian festival of colours at full strength: gulabi-pink keywords, saffron strings, green types and blue methods, thrown like gulal over the ash of the Holika bonfire or over white cotton. |
| Kalaallisuut |
Kalaallisuut Qernertoq (Dark), Kalaallisuut Qaqortoq (Light) |
The West Greenlandic national dress and its colours for age and marital status: red keywords, confirmation pink strings, yellow kamik numbers, blue anorak types, green bead methods and black-and-white fields. |
| Kalamkari |
Kalamkari Indigo (Dark), Kalamkari Cotton (Light) |
Indian hand-painted textiles and their natural dyes, kept muted: aubergine keywords, indigo types, madder methods and myrobalan strings on a vat of indigo or unbleached cotton, outlined in iron-black ink. |
| Kashubia |
Kashubia Zemia (Dark), Kashubia Niebò (Light) |
The seven colours of Kashubian embroidery: cornflower keywords, navy types and light-blue methods under yellow strings, green fields and red numbers, on black earth or white linen. |
| Kerala |
Kerala Backwaters (Dark), Kerala Kasavu (Light) |
Kerala's backwaters, Kathakali stage and kasavu loom: kathi-red keywords, zari-gold strings, pacha-green methods and backwater-teal types, on palm-dark water at night or off-white handloom with a gold border. |
| Łowicz |
Łowicz Wycinanka (Dark), Łowicz Kodra (Light) |
The striped wool and layered paper cut-outs of Łowicz: orange keywords, green strings, emerald types and violet methods with yellow fields and cinnabar numbers, on a black template or a white paper strip. |
| Maramureș |
Maramureș Zadie (Dark), Maramureș Cânepă (Light) |
The striped aprons and flowered skirts of Maramureș, coloured by age: married red keywords, pumpkin-flower strings, blue numbers, dark green types, rose methods and leather-brown fields. |
| Maya |
Maya Corte (Dark), Maya Huipil (Light) |
The town dress of the Guatemalan Maya read through the K'iche' colour roads: green keywords, red strings, yellow types, purple methods and indigo fields, on the jaspe corte or the white huipil. |
| Morocco |
Morocco Majorelle (Dark), Morocco Marrakech (Dark), Morocco Zellige (Dark) |
Three Moroccan walls on saturated backgrounds: Majorelle ultramarine with yellow pots, Marrakech red clay with turquoise doors, and zellige jade with saffron and cobalt tile. |
| Mudhif |
Mudhif Qir (Dark), Mudhif Qasab (Light) |
The reed guest house of the Marsh Arabs of Iraq: hierarchy from the tone and weight of reed gold, with green reed shoots for strings and the willow fire for numbers. |
| Mughal |
Mughal Night, Mughal Wasli (Light) |
Mughal miniature painting: lapis-lazuli keywords, vermilion types, gold-leaf methods and verdigris strings on a lamp-lit night or burnished wasli paper, with Spock labels lettered in gold. |
| Ndebele |
Ndebele Nzima (Dark), Ndebele Mhlophe (Light) |
The painted walls of the Ndebele homestead: keywords drawn as the black outline, with sky-blue types, green methods, yellow strings and pink fields as the flat fills, on black paint or white lime-wash. |
| Peru |
Peru Kulli (Dark), Peru Puka (Dark) |
Andean natural dyes on two dyed-through grounds: q'olle-yellow keywords, ch'illka-green strings and anqas-blue types on purple corn, and ch'illka-green keywords with turquoise methods on cochineal crimson. |
| Podhale |
Podhale Kłobuk (Dark), Podhale Sukno (Light) |
The Highlander costume of Podhale: crimson keywords and navy strings from the cords of the parzenica, brass methods, green fields, blue types and coral numbers, on a black felt hat or white broadcloth. |
| Punjab |
Punjab Phulkari (Dark), Punjab Basant (Light) |
Punjab's phulkari embroidery and Basant mustard fields: golden-silk keywords, orange-silk methods, turquoise strings and saag-green types, on madder-rust khaddar or a field of flowering mustard. |
| Rajasthan |
Rajasthan Blue City (Dark), Rajasthan Pink City (Light) |
The colours of Rajasthan's cities and cloth: kesariya-saffron keywords, rani-pink strings, golden-sandstone types and blue-pottery methods, on the blue houses of Jodhpur by night or the pink sandstone of Jaipur by day. |
| Sardinia |
Sardinia Orbace (Dark), Sardinia Camisa (Light) |
The traditional dress of Sardinia: saffron keywords and scarlet strings from the dyed silk and wool, indigo methods, walnut-brown fields and coral numbers, on black orbace or white linen. |
| Shaker |
Shaker Prussian (Dark), Shaker Plaster (Light) |
The paint of the Shaker villages: bold meetinghouse keywords in plaster white or Prussian blue, Shaker red strings, pumpkin methods, yellow ochre fields, chrome green types and verdigris numbers. |
| Shuimo |
Shuimo Night, Shuimo Day |
Chinese ink-wash painting: hierarchy by ink tone and weight rather than hue, with indigo and ochre washes and a red seal as the only accents. |
| Tamil |
Tamil Kolam (Dark), Tamil Olai (Light) |
Tamil Nadu's kolam, palm-leaf manuscripts and Kanchipuram silk: peacock-neck keywords, mango strings, lac-red types and sapphire methods, on a dark granite threshold or a palm leaf. |
| Wixárika |
Wixárika Haramara (Dark), Wixárika Wirikuta (Light) |
The yarn paintings and beadwork of the Wixárika (Huichol): the five colours of maize, with yellow keywords, blue strings, purple fields, red types and peyote-green methods, on the black of the western sea or the light of the eastern desert. |
| Wuxing |
Wuxing Night, Wuxing Day |
Chinese colour symbolism and the Five Elements: vermilion keywords (Fire), jade strings (Wood), imperial-yellow types (Earth), and a rice-paper or indigo-ink canvas in place of stark white and black (Metal and Water). |
| Yolŋu |
Yolŋu Galawu (Dark), Yolŋu Gapaṉ (Light) |
The ochres of Yolŋu bark painting from north-east Arnhem Land: red keywords, yellow strings, orange types, haematite fields and pink numbers, with white or charcoal methods, on stringybark or white clay. |
| Zalipie |
Zalipie Sadza (Dark), Zalipie Wapno (Light) |
The painted cottages of Zalipie: lime, soot and clay for text, keywords and comments, and the flowers for names, with rose methods, leaf-green strings and violet types, on a soot plinth or a lime-washed wall. |
| Złotnica |
Złotnica Aksamit (Dark), Złotnica Płótno (Light) |
The gold-and-silver embroidered bonnets of Kashubia: hierarchy by metal, tone and weight, with sapphire, burgundy and emerald velvet as the only colours, on green velvet or white linen. |
