Indigo and Resist Dyeing

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Lesley Millar
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. The Language of Resist Dyeing
Farnham School of Art: a pedagogy in resist dyeing
Contributions to knowledge: an international perspective
The emergence of a visual and sensory language
Poetic language
The space and place of resist dyeing
Narrative language: emotional connections
The language of intangible cultural heritage

3. Movement, Motion and Time: The Formation of Practice
The domestic space: routes and pathways to making
From domestic workshop to professional studio
Material flow: paste and wax
Pattern, rhythm and repeat
Rhythms of resist: âblueprintâ
Rhythms of shibori: cultural connections
Rhythms of Mashiko: a personal narrative

4. Material as Metaphor: Colour as Stuff
Indigo as substance
The life and death of a vat
Indigo as pigment
Indigo: burnishing and polishing
Colour as stuff
Mud: the passage of time
Minerals and matter as âplaceâ
Encrusted

5. Process as Performance: Repetition, Ritual, Gesture
Resist dyeing as bodily action
Observers of material flow
Performativity as material transformation
The subliming vessel
Performativity as physical and emotional experience

6. Theatres of Making: Space and Place
Memories of place
Reiko Sudo
In search of ton-byan
Hranovnica: a hiatus in time
Pºchov, Slovakia
Steinberg, Austria
Signposts to the future
Kyoto, Japan
Mashiko, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Arimatsu, Japan
Mashiko revisited
Towards a new definition for intangible cultural heritage

List of Artworks
References
Index