亀甲 Kikkou· Indigo 藍
Indigo 藍 colorway · Japanese pattern wallpaper
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About the Indigo 藍 colorway
Indigo (ai) is the defining color of Japanese textiles. Cheap, hard-wearing and slightly antibacterial, aizome-dyed indigo clothed everyone from farmers to samurai, and visitors once dubbed it 'Japan blue'.
About Kikkou
Kikkou is a honeycomb of hexagons named for the shell of a tortoise, often filled with a small flower.
The hexagonal tortoise-shell pattern came from China and was used by the nobility from the Heian period, frequently combined with florals into variants like kikkou-hanabishi. It carried an air of formality and rank.
Set it as your wallpaper
- Open the design in the editor and tune its colors.
- Recolor the ground and pattern, then add your own photo as the background.
- Download the PNG and set it as your wallpaper (Settings → Wallpaper on iPhone, or “Set as wallpaper” on Android).
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