Checklist for indigo dyeing for indigenous fashion & quilting.
Category: Indigo Dyeing
Are You Ready To Dye Some Fabric or Yarn? Basic Materials You’ll Need For Indigo Dyeing
Description with links to supplies and tutorials for dyeing with natural indigo.
Are You Ready To Dye Some Fabric or Yarn?
After teaching indigo dyeing in Calgary and indigo and black walnut in New Orleans, I’m back in my home studio. My recent travels have endeared many new contacts to my heart as lifelong friends and natural dye converts. As promised, I will Blog my process step by step so anyone interested can follow along. We…
How to Scour Cellulose Fabric
How to prepare plant based fibers for natural dyeing.
Still I Rise: The Blues On Cloth
Transformation through indigo dyeing and healing brokenness with creative hands.
Otahpiaaki 2018 Workshop Preview
Link to YouTube Movie previewing next weeks workshops at Otahpiaaki 2018.
Round Midnight Stitching Adventures
DIY materials to make a Native American Dance Shawl with flat fringe.
Round Midnight Stitching
Making a Native American shawl using hand dyed fabric.
My Indigo Blues Journey
I’m a Teaching Artist from a family of teachers and women who loved sewing, quilting, dyeing fabric, weaving rugs, embroidery and crochet. I grew up in a multi-generational home where handmade was a way of life. I earned a BFA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Studio Art with concentrations in…
Awa Indigo Art Project Ai-no-Keshiki
Today is Day 03 of my participation living with a square of indigo in a fading box with connections to Japan. The cloth was dyed with indigo from Tokushima and the art project is led and developed by Rowland Ricketts. Four hundred and fifty people are participating all around the world. I feel abundantly blessed…
Indigo Online Purchase Options
Online sources of both natural and synthetic indigo.
All About Indigo
The only natural blue dye comes from the indigo plant. Indigo is one of the oldest dyes in the history of humanity. Its history is rich with mystery, ruthlessness, greed, exploration and mystical qualities. All About Indigo explores the plant.
