Predating Chinese and maybe Austronesian and Tai there seems to be a very old that was used across SE Asia . Old Chinese had *kraam which seems to make from an older SinoTibetan radical #Gran or #gram
Vietnamese also calls indigo CHAM
Malay has tarom probably from protoaustronesian *tarum a nd ProtoTai seems to have had a word *graaam the origin of Thai kraam which suggests to me Indigo dyeing dates back to the Neolithic?
In this series I will also cover prints featuring the use of indigo dye and other arts and crafts.
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