CATEGORY | Textile and accessory Design

MATERIAL | Vintage silk top and skirt, jacquard woven and naturally pleated
TECHNIQUE | Natural dyed indigo and shibori zome techniques

Indigo dye has been valued around the world since ancient times for its natural blue colour.
Cross cultural Asian and European themes are used in my work. Three layers of tadeai teal blue silk were hand dyed from local Kapiti organically grown indigo, persicaria tinctoria. The hand dyed indigo on silk pleated upcycled jacquard weave garments and silk satin bias cut shift garment caters for a range of sizing and modern minimalist styling options for the wearer. Indigo fresh tadeai dyes as teal blue on silk scarf which uses shibori zome resist dye design methods. These methods

CITY/COUNTRY | Kapiti, Wellington, New Zealand