Strategies for healing a broken heart through indigenous textile practices.
Category: Indigo Dyeing
Healing Through Indigenous Textiles
Beginning a new journey of healing and transformation after walking out 3 sun rotations of 13 moons associated with the death of my mother.
Witnessing Transformation On Indigenous First Contact Land
Indigenous textiles as a source of healing and transformation practiced by Official Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia.
Are You Ready To Dye Some Fabric For Sewing? Basic Materials You’ll Need For Indigo Dyeing
Checklist for indigo dyeing for indigenous fashion & quilting.
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…
