Indigo Resist Fabric Dyeing Workshop

This half-day workshop (11AM-3PM, each Friday and Saturday) will provide an environment to explore the color Blue in community. Together we will work to digest small bites of indigo’s extremely long and complex history, its application on textiles, and one of the many techniques used to coax the truly magical color onto fabric through a fermentation-based vat. We will primarily engage with indigo dyeing through the playful lens of clay “resist”— a means through which to apply pictures, patterns, and color value to the fabric as we layer it with color. Indigo dyeing is a very involved process originating from many long, rich, and un/interrupted histories of being used in community, and its contemporary use also powerfully lends itself to connecting more deeply to each OTHER in community, as well as connecting more tangibly to our interwoven cultural histories, and histories of land, place, power, and art. 

Indigo dyeing is a quite physical practice that often involves standing, bending, repeatedly wringing wet fabrics, etc. Part of the beauty of practicing this in community is these actions can be shared and distributed as needed. All supplies will be provided. We will be at The Root Social Justice Center.

Led by Lucy Basa. Lucy grew up in a giant, drafty 200 year old farmhouse on a rural, windy hill in central VT, and now lives in equally rural, windy, and beautiful midcoast Maine with her wife and son.

She is deeply moved by the colors, shapes, textures, tastes, smells, horrors, and beauties of the world, and spends an ever-growing portion of her life learning how to reconnect to the vibrant energetic web that holds us all together. By day Lucy is an advocate alongside survivors of domestic violence, and the rest of her time is spent dyeing, gardening, quilting, cooking, making and eating ice cream, and sitting by the ocean— in recent months all with a new and wonderfully rascally baby tied to her. 

Registration is sliding scale $0 - $30, which is determined by access rather than a “pay what you want” model. See more below!

After you click “Add to cart,” the registration form will pop up for you to complete! Thanks in advance for taking the time to complete the form, and get in touch with any questions or if you want to pay by cash or check!

Tickets are sliding scale $0 - $30, which is determined by access rather than a “pay what you want” model. Please consider contributing more if you have benefited from systemic privileges like race or gender. No one turned away for lack of funds. We want to see you there!

To pay the full cost ticket, no need to enter a code. To pay on the sliding scale, enter one of these coupon codes at check out, after you add a ticket to the cart and complete the pop-up form:

$20 ticket = INDIGO20

$10 ticket = INDIGO10

$0 ticket = INDIGOZERO

If you have any trouble registering, get in touch with us at info@weareoutintheopen.org.