Feeling blue is an exhibition in the Glasgow Botanical garden in Septembre 2023. It was set up to celebrate the second anniversary of The Indigo plot the dye garden I curate in the Botanical garden. It is about fibre and dyes and there during the whole week end of 16/17th septembre we will celebrate blue…Continue reading “Feeling blue, The exhibition”
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Protected: The Indigo Plot, Growing Japanese Indigo and Woad in Scotland 2023 – Making a Woad vat and extracting pigment
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Protected: Impressions Botaniques – Les formules
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Protected: The French Retreat… the formulas
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Protected: Leaves on paper 2023 – month 4 – steaming with ph sensitive dyes
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Protected: Eco Printing on paper – basic notes, The Sculpture Studio workshop – May 2023
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Call out for natural dyed work for September Glasgow exhibition Feeling blue: fibre and dye from The Indigo plot –
“Feeling blue fibre and dye from The Indigo Plot” is a natural dye exhibition curated by textile artist and natural dyer. Over the week end of the 16 and 17th septembre work produced using the Natural dyes grown in the dye garden will be exhibited. This is a call out for dyed pieces using sustainableContinue reading “Call out for natural dyed work for September Glasgow exhibition Feeling blue: fibre and dye from The Indigo plot –”
Protected: The True Colour of the Cotinus, making blue prints with a tannin background 2023
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Protected: Leaves on paper 2023 – Month three steaming with tannins
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Dyeing Blue with Woad plants – Spring 2023
Using Natural dyes for colours seems to be on the agenda of many nowadays. It seems that boiling a few plants from our back garden into hot water and stir while adding some recycled bed linen to make new curtains is going to save the world. It is more sustainable and better than using aContinue reading “Dyeing Blue with Woad plants – Spring 2023”