Woman in blue smock reaches for large, square cloth sheet containers, yellow ambient light

Photographs of textile artists Linda Brassington engaged in the British Council-funded 'Crafting Futures' cultural exchange project, where she made pieces that reflected Georgian material heritage reimagined in contemporary cloth.

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Pouring out a green liquid
Applying a green liquid to a yellow board
Looking at the cloth case as it goes into the vacuum drier
A woman's hand turns on a hot tap in a dye-splashed tiled sink area, yellow ambient light
Washing down the dyed cloth case, yellow ambient light
Opening the drying rack, with movement blur, yellow ambient light
Looking at the washed, died case, yellow ambient light
A in a blue smock woman spreads white glue paste onto the cloth case
A woman in a blue smock tilts the large cloth case up on her left
Woman in black shirt using an iron to apply resist to a cloth
An iron at top right about to travel across a black cloth with a cream coloured-resist
Woman with silver hair and black shirt gently touches the black cloth and cream-coloured resist
The hands of a woman in a blue smock fold a large piece of cloth
Woman in a blue smock puts folded material into a metal steam cabinet
Woman in a blue smock walking towards camera in a sink room with metal cabinets while holding folded material
Woman's hands washing a black cloth with cream-coloured resist on it
Industrial sink and taps with hose attached and sponge.
Dark blue, crusty surface of indigo dye.
Rolled up cloth enter an indigo dye dip
Hand in a blue nitrile glove pointing to the bleeding edge of an indigo dyed cloth
Indigo-dyed cloth washing under tap water in a Belfast sink
A hand in a blue nitrile cloth fingers a wet indigo-dyed cloth
Indigo dye draining down a sink
Side view of a roll of material being dipped into an indigo dye vat
Indigo-dyed cloth being held up by the hands and body of a woman in a blue smock in front of a black-tiled wall
Woman's hands washing a black cloth with cream-coloured resist dyed with indigo in a white Belfast sink
Black cloth with one wave and one large rectangle of cream-coloured resist indigo dye

Final pieces: Response 1

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Black cloth with one large trapezoid of cream-coloured resist, three lines through to black, yellow stripe and indigo dye

Final pieces: Response 2

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Black cloth with one wave and one large rectangle of cream-coloured resist, yellow stripe and indigo dye

Final pieces: Response 3

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Black cloth with one large cream-coloured C-shape resist containing one small circle of cream-coloured resist with indigo dye and yellow stripe

Final pieces: Curve

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A woman walks up some stairs, blurred, wall-mounted TV in the lobby at right with display case, poster and textile art on the stair landing to upper left

Installation images at the Crafts Study Centre, Farnham, Surrey, UK

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A man's arm, blurred, holds a banister, display case and poster
Textile art work on the wall of a stair well landing
Textile art on the wall of a stair well landing, reverse view with more stairs going up and a blurred leg and trainer
Man looks at textile art on the wall of a stair well landing
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