India flint

India Flint's work conflates the visual and written poetics of place and memory, using walking, drawing, assemblage, dyeing, stitch, image-making and text to interpret country, recoding and recording responses to landscape — working with cloth, paper, stone, windfall biological material, water, minerals, bones, the discarded artifacts and hard detritus of human habitation, the local weed burden. Fellow artist Chris Orchard has described the work as “using the earth as printing plate, and…

BY KATRINA RODABAUGH | It is such an honor to bring you today’s interview with India Flint, aka @prophet_of_bloom. India is an Australian-based natural dyer, fiber artist, visual artist, costumer, teacher and author, best known for creating the “ecoprint” dye technique. Her natural-dye methods lead to eco-friendly, plant-based, biodegradable and locally foraged color for cloth and yarn, allowing the […]

“eco colour, botanical dyes for beautiful textile” is a new book by india flint:

India Flint in the Lowlands

Explore india9na's 70 photos on Flickr!

Thank you to all for the lovely comments about the post of Day 1 of the India Flint workshop. Thanks as well to India and Christine for sharing the post! Day 2 was just as fun...despite the cool temps and rain that accompanied yesterday. Seems even Mother Nature wanted to take part in the class by providing us with rain water to use to refill the dye pots when extra water was needed. Shame I didn't get a shot of the bucket sitting just so under a drip...well...small steady stream…

India Flint on Instagram: ". . no plastic, no powdered chemicals just honest cloth, stormfall leaves, an old can and some water in a pot the story of the making of this dress is on my substack, the image of it before bundling is on the previous post thank you Marion @beautifulsilks for supplying me with this lovely substrate #silkjersey #eucalyptus #ecoprint #rollupanddye #honestcloth #noplastic #indiaflint"

Sustainable Dye Supplies​, Color Rooted in Nature