Dr Linda Brassington in conversation with Lesley Millar MBE, Professor Emerita Textile Culture UCA and Dr Stephen Knott, Director of the Crafts Study Centre.

In her new book, Indigo and Resist Dyeing: Performance, Metaphor and Materiality in Contemporary Cloth, textile artist and researcher Linda Brassington examines the practices and meanings of this global heritage craft, taking us through workshops, studios and dye rooms from England to Central Europe and Japan. Together, the panel will explore the author’s writings and her move from skills and knowledge to language and lyrical accounts, revealing sensory spaces of lived experience with material, colour and cloth.

This event is hosted by the Crafts Study Centre.

Tickets are free, booking required.

Doors will open at 11.30am, talk will start at 12pm. 

Linda Brassington PhD is an independent artist and researcher, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Churchill Trust. She has an extensive career as a practitioner and educator in printed and dyed textiles, primarily as former Senior Lecturer at UCA Farnham. Her work has received awards from the British Council, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Pasold Research Fund, Society of Dyers and Colourists and the Dyers Company, and has contributed to the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Lesley Millar is Emerita Professor of Textile Culture at the University for the Creative Arts.

Stephen Knott is the Director of the Crafts Study Centre, part of the University for the Creative Arts.