Painted in blue
This year I learned how to tint textiles with indigo, a dye obtained from the fermentation of the leaves of a plant called Indigofera tinctoria, common in Asia and Africa. I have wanted to achieve this shade for a long time but knew that the technique was very different from what is used for most natural dyes.
Overcome the technical challenge (will tell you more about this in future emails), I dedicated myself to dyeing the cords for my necklaces, which I matched with cobalt-stained handmade porcelain beads. The new colour led me to create new designs of necklaces and also to recreate previous pieces in blue.
They can be found at Patrón Concept Store in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
NOTEBOOK IN BLOOM
In 2017 I wrote a text that I find much more relevant today than when I wrote it. It is entitled "To Use Our Hands" and it is a reflection on the tendency to facilitate and automate our daily lives to generate free time, which is supposed to be used for recreation, but ends up plunging us into irrational consumerism and inaction.
The reflection was inspired by reading a book about the Arts and Crafts movement:
| Read To Use Our Hands |
ON FOCUS
Foam Necklace
Handmade stained porcelain beads and natural indigo-dyed cotton cords.
| Watch IGTV video about Foam necklace |
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