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批次0001-004：突尼斯杰尔巴岛蓝门仪式中的陶印记忆

Before weddings in Djerba, families press handmade clay stamps onto blue-painted doors to mark years of marriage, grief, or return from exile.
Each stamp bears symbols carved by grandmothers: a fish for safe travel, a date palm for endurance, or interlocking rings for vows renewed.
The clay is mixed with seawater and crushed coral, then sun-dried for exactly forty-eight hours under specific wind conditions.
No two stamps look identical—even when carved from the same mold—because humidity, heat, and hand pressure alter every impression.
When a home changes hands, new owners never remove old stamps; instead, they add their own beside them, creating layered chronicles on wood.
Teenagers learn stamp-making not in schools, but during late-night gatherings where elders trace designs onto damp clay with olive twigs.
Blue paint is reapplied every spring, but the stamps remain visible beneath fresh layers, like memories under skin.
A stamp made during drought carries deeper grooves than one pressed in rainy season—a subtle archive of climate and emotion.
This practice began not as art, but as legal testimony: stamped doors once served as binding contracts in oral justice systems.
In Djerba, color fades, wood warps, but clay remembers—quietly, permanently, in indigo shadow.