“Shades of Blue” is an a Festival, celebration about Indigo, the pigment, the dye, the plants, the processes that gives the magical colour blue that has been capturing the imagination of many around the world for thousands of years… and the community that connects us together.
EXHIBITION IN THE AULD KIRK
I am curating an exhibition hosted by The Auld Kirk in Kirkintilloch which will feature my journey over the past 7 years learning from Indigo Masters around the World. With Art work, collected objects, plant things and many samplers it will open your eyes about the diversity of Indigo.
“SHADES OF BLUE, The many lives of Indigo”,
The Auld Kirk Museum, Cowgate, Kirkintilloch (Glasgow) G66 1HN
26th of September till 29th of October
Opened 10am till 5pm Tuesday till Saturday
“THE 100 DYERS” PROJECT
The “100 dyers” collaboration project features skeins of yarn sent by dyers from 16 countries using a huge range of Indigo baring plants and a variety of processes that will capture your imagination. I have asked those dyers to come together ina collaborative where they can exchange and learn from each others.
FIND INFORMATION ABOUT THE “100 DYERS PROJECT” BELOW
ONLINE TALKS
As part of “Shades of Blue” I will be offering a program of online conversations and demonstrations related to Indigo processes. Live on zoom and recorded they will be shared with those registered.
Book a ticket using the links from the boxes below and you will be sent a zoom link one week before the talk. The fees will support the speakers and the cost of the festival. I made it low to allow many to join in. The cost is £10/talk.
TO BOOK A SPACE PLEASE CLICK THE LINKS BELOW
TALK PROGRAME:
(TIMES INDICATED BELOW BELOW ARE BST – BRITISH SUMMER TIME)
9th October 9pm – JOHN WALKER & PAUL HENRY, “THE SIG VAT”
10th October 10am – KENCHO DENKAR, “THE TRADITIONAL BHUTAN FERMENTED VAT”
10th October 12 am – PRACH NIYOMKAR (MANN CRAFT), “THE TRADITIONAL TAMARIND VAT IN THAILAND.
10th October 2pm: WILLIAM INGRAM, “COMMUNITY DYEING AND INDIGO PASTE SUPPLY IN BALI”
24th October 10am – LANNA BROWN CHIANGDAO AND WOROSAK FURREON “THE CHIANGDAO CONNECTION”
24th October 12 noon – ELISABETH VIGUIE CULSHAW “THE FERROUS VAT”
24th October 2pm – MICHEL GARCIA “THE FRUCTOSE VAT”
24th October 4pm – ELISABETH VIGUIE CULSHAW “100 DYERS PROJECT” free of charge. to come, if you have booked some talks above you will be sent a link authomatically
THE BHUTAN VAT
THE TAMARIND VAT
THE INDIGO PLOT
THE FERROUS VAT
THE FRUCTOSE VAT
THE SIG VAT
FREE OF CHARGE
ABOUT GROWING JAPANESE INDIGO
AND THE INDIGO PLOT
In 2021 The Glasgow Botanical garden offered her a space to grow Japanese Indigo and Woad in a tiny garden she called @ The Indigo plot. There for several years she grew two large beds that she shared comes the autumn in an exhibition “Feeling Blue” in the garden’s Kibble palace.
In 2026, The Auld Kirk museum in Kirkintilloch has offered her a space to share what she has learned in the past 7 years in a 5 weeks exhibition of plants, yarn, dyes, artwork and knowledge. The exhibition will be only partly about Elisabeth’s own work. It will be mainly a way for her to share what she has learned about Indigo with the general public and she hopes they will travel from far.
In 2026 The Indigo plot has moved just outside The Barony Hall outside The Auld Kirk and in a great box Elisabeth is growing with the help of the Museum staff 600 plants of Japanese Indigo with an aim to share the fresh leaves dyeing with the public during the exhibition. It is hoped that children will also be present to discover the magical blue.
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