Category Archives: Indigo dyeing

Indigo dyeing

October Studio

Posted on October 4, 2015 by

September has passed in a blur of sun, studio-time and a mad race to prepare for the annual studio tour of two weekends. As I have spent most of the post-tour week cleaning up, it occurred to me that you, … Continue reading →

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Indigo blues et amaranth reds in August

Posted on August 29, 2015 by

A busy month so far! Art, gardens, travels, guests… Brooklyn and Manhattan in late July, early August were HOT! Ottawa, too. But refuge was close: The Brooklyn Botanical Garden, and in particular, the native plants garden, were ripe with goldenrod … Continue reading →

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A Garden Printed in July

Posted on July 29, 2015 by

Eco dyeing and eco printing are, for me, art forms sprung from my lifelong love of plants and gardening. My earliest childhood memories, in fact, are of the textures, forms and colours of plants – bilberries, heather and fuschia growing … Continue reading →

Posted in Brooklyn, dye plants, dyeing with native plants, Eco Prints, eco prints on paper, Indigo dyeing, Rust Printing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 15 Comments

Rust and Indigo For A Chinese Thread Book

Posted on April 7, 2015 by

Thanks to the delightful kindness of Kit Tyrrell, one of my blog readers in the UK, I have received two booklets by Ruth Smith about folded books that can contain many compartments. One such book is the Chinese Thread Book … Continue reading →

Posted in book arts, bookbinding, Chinese Thread Book, Indigo dyeing, Miao people, Miao thread and needle case, Rust dyeing, Rust Printing, Ruth Smith booklets, Shereen Laplantz folded books | Tagged , , , , , | 28 Comments