Textiles and Natural Dyes

IG:rugtuftuk   IG: sobadsewgood 1st Idea: Use textile samples to make a patchwork quilt jacket or shirt.  2nd Idea: Make a rug using the tufting gun, either transparent background or using mirrors and making multiple instillation. 

Oxford Observer  1st Idea: Hold a class, teaching others to crochet.  2nd Idea: Make plarn mats to distribute to some of the local homeless population.    A sleeping mat helps a sleeping bag do it’s job better by keeping it off the cold or wet ground. I could combine this with teaching the class possibly .    Set up bins on campus to collect plastic bags, and create plarn out of the bags. It takes about 500 Bags to make one 2.5x6ft mat. Could combine this with a crochet class, and we make the mats as a whole class. 

  Shauna Gentile Textiles and Natural Dyes Laura Mongiovi March 8th, 2022 Chapter 6: Indigo and an East Florida Plantation Pgs. 87-92 The chapter begins examining the manager of an indigo plantation who is referred to as “Indian Johnson” who abandoned the plantation one day, never to be seen again. He left over 50 enslaved people behind as well as a surplus of food for them. He left a secure position working with and for the influential Brit’s in America. The chapter states that he provided a “former harbor for runaway slaves and a current sanctuary for outlaws and potentially hostile Indians”. The man who hired him, Henry Laurens, was frustrated by Johnsons departure. Laurens cultivated Indigo in South Carolina’s low country, where the plant was successfully grown in the colony for the first time. Laurens was wary of Florida’s undevelopedness as a whole, and did not want to plant indigo and other crop there, but helped a friend, Richard Oswald,  in doing so.  Laurens w...