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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on August 21, 2011.
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1-day Indigo dyeing workshop with Linda LaBelle! I will do a private one-day indigo dyeing workshop with you at my studio. You learn how to make an odorless, quick reduction indigo vat using Michel Garcia's technique. We will then dye wool, cotton and silk. This is a super way of making indigo - something you can do in your own home, great to do with kids as no chemicals are used. Please note: you will be responsible for your own travel arrangements and expenses. Your name will also go on the Thank You page of The Indigo Project.
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Your name on the Thank You page and a signed copy of The Indigo Project and 4 ounces of Oaxacan Indigo and 2 ounces of Oaxacan Cochineal and a silk scarf dyed in indigo
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3-day natural dyeing workshop with Linda LaBelle for you. I will do a private three day natural dyeing workshop with you at my studio. The focus of this workshop will be making color and using assists to change those colors. Utilizing everything from lemons to iron we will change the properties of the dye bath to create new colors We will work with wool, cotton and silk. Please note: you will be responsible for your own travel arrangements and expenses. Your name will also go on the Thank You page of The Indigo Project.
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Your name on the Thank You page and a signed copy of The Indigo Project and a scarf handwoven by me with indigo dyed yarns
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3-day natural dyeing workshop with Linda LaBelle for you and a friend. I will do a private three day natural dyeing workshop with you and a friend at my studio. The focus of this workshop will be making color and using assists to change those colors. Utilizing everything from lemons to iron we will change the properties of the dye bath to create new colors We will work with wool, cotton and silk. Please note: you will be responsible for your own travel arrangements and expenses. Your name will also go on the Thank You page of The Indigo Project.
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Your name on the Thank You page and a signed copy of The Indigo Project and a shawl handwoven by me with indigo dyed yarns + 1 signed copy each of Stories of Hope; Mexico, India & Rwanda and Stories of Hope - Oaxaca, Weavers of Southern Mexico.
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About Linda LaBelle
Linda LaBelle is the owner of The Yarn Tree, (www.theyarntree.com) an on-line fiber business, an author and fiber artist specializing in natural dyeing and weaving.
Prior to opening The Yarn Tree in August 2001, Linda was the costume designer for Matthew Barney’s film series, the Cremaster Cycle.
Her book The Yarn Lover’s Guide to Hand Dyeing was published in Nov. 2007 by Potter Craft, an imprint of Random House.
She is currently involved with YoYo Ma’s Silk Road Project’s educational program, The Silk Road Connect, taking place in New York City schools. In October and November of 2009 and 2010 Linda went into the schools doing indigo dyeing with 450 sixth graders.
Take a look at the video on you tube. http://www.youtube.com/watch…
April 2011 Linda traveled to Kazakhstan as a cultural envoy at the invitation of the US Embassy to teach two natural dyeing workshops. This program was in participation with a local NGO “Our Heritage”, that is working to revive the traditional knotted pile carpet weaving of Southern Kzakhstan.
Also in the spring of 2011 Linda was the recipient of a travel grant from the Textile Society of America to attend ISEND2011, a natural dye symposium that took place in LaRochelle, France.
January 2011 Linda traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico to present a scholarship for Creativity & Experimentation and an interest free micro-loan. This was done through her charity-based organization Stories of Hope (www.madderlane.com).
November 2010 Linda had an article published in HandEye’s online magazine about her work in Rwanda.
http://handeyemagazine.com/content/bringing-joy-rwanda
September 2010 found Linda teaching an Ikat workshop at the Museo Textil de Oaxaca. She worked with 10 weavers returning to them a lost technique that will enable them to produce new products to sell in the marketplace.
August 2010 Linda did conservation work on Christo’s “Wedding Dress” and was the consultant for the sculpture created for the costume to be displayed on.
In the spring and summer of 2010 Linda demonstrated Silk Reeling at the American Museum of Natural History for their science camps in conjunction with the Silk Road exhibit.
On Monday March15, 2010 Linda was interviewed on Morning Living, the Martha Stewart Radio Show on Sirius 112/XM 157. The topic was Back to Basics – Weaving.
November 2009 Linda demonstrated indigo dyeing at the American Museum of Natural History’s NYC Educator’s Night.
In the Spring of 2009 Linda appeared on the reality TV show “Moving Up” (episode 402) as the guest weaver, teaching one of the participants to weave on a rigid heddle loom and executed the woven piece featured in the episode.
November of 2008 Linda spoke on the sustainability of natural dyes to the Council of Fashion Designers of America at an event sponsored by Earth Pledge.
September 2007 Linda demonstrated indigo dyeing to the Color Association of the US
Linda has gone into the NYC public school PS 89 to demonstrate indigo dyeing for the curriculum “New Amsterdam”.
November of 2008 Linda traveled to Puebla and Oaxaca Mexico. She was instrumental in raising the funds to start a library and purchase shoes and school uniforms for a children's center, Calpulli de los Ninos, Tlaxcalancingo. Mexico.
February 2009 she traveled to southern India (Aranya Natural Dye Unit, Munnar, Kerala) and worked with a group of specially-abled young adults teaching them to dye with Cochineal, an insect that produces beautiful reds.
June of 2009 Linda traveled to Musanze, Rwanda and worked with 10 genocide widows on their spinning techniques as well as teaching them to dye with local plants and weave on a rigid heddle loom. The women told her that learning to weave brought them much joy!
Upon her return from Rwanda Linda realized that in order to continue to do this work she must be able to do it independently of other organizations.
She now has a fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas (www.fracturedatlas.org) for her charity-based project Stories of Hope (www.madderlane.com). This will allow her to raise the funds needed to be able to continue to teach craft-based skills to those in need.
In the spring of 2010 Linda published Stories of Hope; Mexico, India and Rwanda about her travels and the people she works with. http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/1212970
In the spring of 2011 Linda published Stories of Hope-Oaxaca, Weavers of Southern Mexico.
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2132961
