工字繋ぎ Kouji· 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 Kouji
Kouji-tsunagi links the character 工 ('work') along the diagonal into a continuous key-fret.
Part of the family of fret and key patterns (including sayagata), kouji repeats the angular 工 shape so its arms interlock. Such geometric ground patterns were widely used to fill backgrounds on textiles and lacquer from the Edo period.
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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