Indigo textiles

I am in the process of updating the game room in our home. The small pool bath off the game room has the original blue and white mexican tile. I don

A visual dictionary of techniques. Click on the ‘play’ buttons next to the names to hear the Japanese pronunciations. For detailed instruction on techniques see Jane’s book ‘Stitched Shibori’. Why not book into her interactive zoom courses ‘Shibori Stream’ – You can read the reviews by students and see her students’ members gallery. Stitched Shibori […]

Shop I dedicate my love for textiles, art, people & culture by FarEastWeavers located in Leicester, United Kingdom. Top shop for gifts. A buyer bought a gift from this shop and gave it a 5-star review!

Discover a hugely popular African textile tradition using a resist-dyeing technique

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Shop our soft, hand stitched, block printed pillows made of vintage textiles, organic cotton + natural fibers from around the globe. Due to their handmade nature, each pillow is truly a one of a kind.

Get the backstory on the making of the 2011 documentary “Blue Alchemy: Stories of Indigo” by filmmaker (and SDA Member) Mary Lance. Cover of "Blue Alchemy" DVD Photo courtesy Mary Lance

This shop specialized in indigo-dyed fabrics.

Patched indigo cotton textile with stitching in homespun natural fibre, on a stretcher covered in indigo cotton, circa 1850-1900 Dimensions: 94 x 156 cm (can be hung portrait or landscape) Provenance: Gordon Reece collection Boro textiles were the traditional bedcovers and garments of poor rural communities of Northern Japan - the literal translation of ‘boro’ being rags. They were carefully constructed from salvaged pieces of second-hand cotton fabric bartered from sea faring merchants from…

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