2019 FOUNDATION

TEACHING NATURAL DYES IN BENGAL

We continue to work with a natural dye revival in Bengal. Regular readers will know that following the 2017 Indigo Sutra conference, Maiwa taught workshops in rural Bengal. To get artisans up and running with natural dyes they need orders. As 2019 unfolded, those orders started to arrive. We will unfurl the cloth, check the weave and dyeing and then think about how this magnificent cloth can be used. 

Read about the Bengal Workshops in our series of blog posts.

Maiwa was pleased to provide some of the natural dye samples that will be on display at the Royal Ontario Museum's upcoming show: The Cloth that Changed the World: India's Painted and Printed Cottons. The exhibition opens in April 2020 and runs until September 2020. A few of our images have been used in the accompanying book. The book is a magnificent production edited by Sarah Fee (Senior curator of Eastern Hemisphere fashion and textiles at the Royal Ontario Museum.) The book is now available for pre-order. 

2019 ENGAGEMENT

GIBSONS PUBLIC ART GALLERY

Charllotte Kwon delivered a talk at the Gibsons Public Library on the Sunshine Coast. It was her Slow Clothes lecture in which she argues for ways to put value and meaning back into our textiles and the ways we make them.

The 2019 Lecture and Event Series included a number of international artisans. We had five outstanding individuals from India including father & son, Jabbar and Adam Khatri. brothers Abdullah and Jabbar Khatri, and famed weaver Shamji Vankar. We also hosted a special event by India Flint, and provocative lectures by Meghann O'Brien,  Anna Heywood-Jones, and Tim McLaughlin. The annual Threads Lecture was delivered by Charllotte Kwon and Tim McLaughlin.

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