Plants hosting natural dyes are grown and infused together. Cross routed into one singular Gourd root plant concentrating the cumulative dyes into a single super die ink. The root of the host gourd distends from the bulb hosting all of the plants. It is from this one single super root that the Rilaoan tattoo ink is cultivated.
Ink Gourd
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Curated by Zhan Li, Patricia Marshall and Austin Nimnicht.