About the Artist

Dyah K. Miller is a Javanese textile dye artist based in Norwood, Ohio, practicing natural indigo dyeing and batik rooted in the traditions of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. For the past seven years, she has grown subtropical indigo in her Ohio garden, moving from seed to finished cloth, cultivating the plant, processing the dye, and applying traditional wax-resist techniques passed down through generations.

She also honors the land she currently inhabits by planting native plant dyes, incorporating them into her practice and drawing from the knowledge of traditional native and early settler dyeing traditions.
In 2024, she received a grant from the American Institute for Indonesian Studies and the LUCE Foundation to bring batik workshops, discussion, and exhibition to Cincinnati. She has also taught at the Indonesian Consulate in Chicago and Purdue University, and is an active member of the Rust Belt Fibershed Collective.
Through Folk Indigo, Dyah tends the full inheritance of indigo: the plant, the pattern, and the story.