2013 Maiwa Textile Symposium

Lecture The Peripatetic Alchemist - Travels With a Dyepot 

India Flint

7:45 (Doors open at 7:30) $15.00

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Net Loft: Granville Is. Vancouver BC

In 2008, with the publication of her first book, Eco Colour: Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles, India Flint brought a radical new perspective to an ancient practice. She rethought the entire dye process.  Her book forcefully and eloquently champions ecologically sustainable plant-based printing processes to give colour to cloth. When it first arrived on the scene, Eco Colour was both an eye-opener and a game-changer.

While India Flint’s practice is focussed firmly on the use of plant dyes, it embraces cloth, paper, and felt and is expressed in works for the wall as well as pieces for the body including costume for contemporary dance theatre. She is known for the highly distinctive ecoprint and has made a commitment to using bio-regional colour—meaning that dyes are extracted from windfall plants wherever she happens to be. Join India Flint for an hour of storytelling and slides. India has also hinted that at the end of the lecture she may have something  of a surprise up her eucalyptus-patterned sleeve.

India joins us from Australia.