Month: October 2018
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Harvesting indigo, late September
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Indigo dyeing with resist stitching: Imagining Eliza (Lucas Pinckney)
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Breukelen Country Fair, September 2018
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Reinterpreting Eliza Lucas Pinckney’s shoes
Silk shoe inspired by Eliza Lucas Pinckney’s brocaded shoes. 2018. Embroidery on indigo-dyed silks sitting on a bed of Japanese indigo flowers going to seed. Note: the flowers are not dye-producing. It’s the leaves from which dye is made. Eliza is considered in common historical literature the “American mother of indigo.” She persisted in planting…