Linda Brassington
Indigo and resist dyeing
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As a specialist in printed and dyed textiles, I work with resist dyeing; exploring its creative potential through art residencies, practice-based research and design projects. Indigo is a living substance, unique in the history of world textiles. Its process of fermentation is organic, transforming from yellow, to green to blue. As the cloth emerges from the dye vat, indigo develops hues from the palest transparent blue to layers of the darkest inky blacks.
My international projects in craft heritage sites include commissions in India, Japan, Slovakia and other European nations, connecting past practices with their future. In Austria, as part of a UNESCO collaborative project, gradations of tone were developed on different paper cloths, diffused junctions where dye meets two contrasting woven structures and densities. In Japan, 'Encrusted' (2016) reflects the thick, crystallised surface that has developed around the rim of the indigo vat over 200 years. And in parallel, 'Compressed' (2021) is an expression of a micro world of patterning on cloth, its memories contained inside the intricacies of its substance and in the markings of its manipulations.
Mini craft gallery
Katazome paste resist on paper, Higeta Indigo Workshop, Mashiko, Japan (2023)
MADE BY LINDA BRASSINGTON
Work in progress: Ramie in indigo, Higeta Indigo Workshop, Mashiko, Japan (2023)
MADE BY LINDA BRASSINGTON
Work in progress: Katazome paste resist, Higeta Indigo Workshop, Mashiko, Japan (2016)
MADE BY LINDA BRASSINGTON
Work in progress: Crafting Futures, British Council Cultural Exchange Project (2022)
MADE BY LINDA BRASSINGTON
