Last weekend I had the opportunity to attend the Natural Dye Conference at RMIT in Melbourne. On a sunny Friday morning, the otherwise quiet campus was abuzz with ladies in felt hats, eco-printed tights, tops, coats and scarves. Creative extravaganza everywhere.
No venue more could be more suitable for the current exhibition of the MET 'Heavenly Bodies - Fashion and the catholic imagination' than the the Medieval Museum part of the The Metropolitan Museum in NYC, THE CLOISTERS !
After graduation, Martin Margiela worked as a freelance designer for five years. Between 1985 and 1987 he worked for Jean Paul Gaultier, before showing his first collection under his own label, which he started with his business partner Jenny Meirens in 19...
DyeHaus is currently travelling and seeing the sites and meeting people in Paris under the expert guidance of Yoshiko Wada, doyenne of Shibori and founder of WSN. Does it get any better?
She introduced me to world - renown fibre artist Sheila Hicks, an area that hasn't...
You may remember this Instagram post from August last year.
Click on the image and see what happened to it!
This piece of Cochineal dyed fabric with an Itajime shibori decoration was my contribution to an installation called “Standing Here” (aptly named) at the HO...
Did you know that under Louis XIV quality control was assured through classification of grand teint (colourfast) and petit teint (non-fast) dyes? That Madder consists of 15 types of red and that tannins have anti microbial, antiviral and antifungal properties? If this...
Indigo is commonly associated with India, its origin. You may be aware of cultivation in Central Asia and China as well, but America rarely comes to mind. Let me change your perception.
I promised a post on Indigo in America, so here it is, albeit with some d...
