Blue hands tell of wondrous traditional skills of fabric dyeing with indigo in the Tokushima area of Shikoku Island, Japan. This humble blue flower is picked and prepared through a long, complex process, then to be turned into liquid. living dye into which different fabrics are dipped. The resultant fabrics are utterly bewitching in their subtle, clear and joyous blue patterns. They lead one into yet another fascinating, centuries-old art form in Japan.