Indigo Fabric For Textile Art

[kmadigan]

Hi,
I'm a visual artist looking for indigo-dyed fabric here--do you know anybody who does that here? I've been making Japanese boro-style textiles and using those rags you find in all supermercados for cleaning and mopping; they look great, just looking for other sources of interesting or home-made fabrics. kathleenmadiganart.com
Thanks, Kathleen

 

[Dada]

For any sort of fabrics, check out Lavalle, roughly between Callao and Pueyrredón. There's a several blocks long part of the street full of fabric shops one next to the other.

 

[estebandepraga]

hi jana im in prague but only till tuesday hope youre ok
maybe we'll meet this summer tady v praze
zatim
mej se
esteban

 

[Ries]

go to the Mercado Bonpland, a co-op group of food and craft sellers. there are several textile mavens who sell their work there.
https://noticias.terra.com.ar/sociedad/el-mercado-de-bonpland-economia-social-en-palermo-hollywood,8fc32a12ef02d310VgnVCM3000009acceb0aRCRD.html
at the first stand on the left, ask if Claudia is there- she is very knowledgeable, and a textile artist of some renown. Her husband often works there, and some of her work is for sale there.

Another woman who know a ton about what organic and small producer natural textiles are available is the designer, Maria Alejandra Gotelli, who has a store called Cubreme, on Godoy Cruz near Honduras in Palermo Soho.
http://cubreme.com/

the rags you are talking about are trapos de rejilla.
My wife, Sheila Klein, has been making a line of clothing from them for a few years now.
http://www.sheilaklein.com/artwork/new-trade-route/01.html

indigo is going to be pretty hard to find- its not an argentine thing- a few old hippies may make it, but I have never seen it commercially. I mean, stretch jean fabric, sure, with rhinestones and embroidery- but japanese style stuff, not likely.