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Mbuyi Kalombo

Indigo dyer — KinshasaDemocratic Republic of Congo

Mbuyi Kalombo

Mbuyi keeps four fermentation vats alive in a courtyard off Avenue Kasa-Vubu. He reads the dye by the copper film on its surface, not by a thermometer, and dips cotton up to twelve times for the deepest blues JAANTE sources in Kinshasa.

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