THREADS OF RURAL LIFE: BENGAL
And so, in the end, all of our threads come together: dyeing, weaving, craft, life.
HANDWOVEN, NATURALLY DYED YARDAGE
FROM BENGAL
Tuesday, July 05, 2022
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Thursday, October 29, 2020
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Madder dye. Bright, colourfast, relatively easy to work with, and well priced for the local economy. It's the red of choice for many dyers.
It was January of 2018 when our team of dyeing instructors arrived in Bengal.
Monday, June 25, 2018
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Indigo on cotton. Charllotte Kwon stretches a skein taut to check the colour.
In November of 2017 Kolkata turned blue. Or, at least, it did in the minds of those attending the Indigo Sutra Conference — a conference dedicated to the study and use of indigo. As part of this conference Maiwa’s Charllotte Kwon and Tim McLaughlin presented a lecture, guided a panel discussion and gave a full-day workshop on how to build and maintain a natural indigo vat using a number of natural techniques.
Monday, May 28, 2018
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Throughout history, if you wanted to learn about natural dyes, India was the place to go. For a number of reasons that were historical, political, and cultural; hand-textile traditions survived and flourished in India. If you knew where to look, you could find weaving, spinning and dyeing being done in rural and urban areas using ingenious techniques. For 30 years Maiwa has documented much of that knowledge and shared it: in documentary films, in workshops, in artisan masterclasses, and in working with artisans using traditional techniques.
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
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