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Indigenous Fashion Artists

Carola Jones, Artist (Mixed Media) | Designer (Graphic, Fabric & Fashion) 
Internet Technologies Specialist
STEM + Textiles Teaching Artist (Middle School)
Indigenous Fashion Brand >> Stitching Culture
WEB: Art by Carola | www.artbycarola.com
BLOG: Fiber Art by Carola | www.fiberartbycarola
CONTACT: [email protected]

• Mixed media Indigenous artist/designer creating fiber art using various combinations of natural land-based dyes, earth pigments, hand embroidery, machine stitching, beadwork, hyperbolic crochet, photographs and/or collage.
  
• 5th Generation Indigenous Geechee Indigo & Natural Dye Practitioner (Toisnot Tuscarora, Florida Seminole & Johns Island Geechee) | 60+ Years Dye Experience
• Volunteer STEAM Teaching Artist @YGIG After School for Middle Schoolers
• Small Business Internet Technologies Consultant
• Twenty-seven years experience in web and graphic design
• Coding knowledge of XHTML, CSS and JavaScript

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Stitching Culture ~ Talking Cloth

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Stitching Culture Studio 104
Historic Mercy Hospital

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I Was Born @ Mercy Hospital &
Now I'm Making Art Here

Talking Cloth Podcast
Gullah Geechee Indigo Dyeing

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60+ Years Indigo Dyeing Experience | Taught to Me by Doris, Minnie, Mattie, Mary & Marion + ECU Textiles & Penland School of Crafts

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Stitching Cloth ART

Examples of My Creations

Stitching Cloth Wearables

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All About Wool

My All About Wool exploration started during a art residency at the University of British Columbia on the Okanagan. After many years of research, my goal is to bring back our traditional indigo blue dyed Algonquin Eastern Woodland wool blankets. This project has lived inside of me for decades, and was realized as I prepared to teach a hands-on workshop at Indigenous Fashion Arts in Toronto in 2024. I sourced wool yardage from Pro-Chemical and Dye and Dharma Trading. To create wool for applique and collage, I'm dyeing solid colors using marigold flowers, turmeric, indigo and madder powders, logwood chips, ground cochineal insects, and onion skins.

Reference Links Below:

• Solar Dye Lab Project: Colorizing Wool With Sunlight
  
• Solar Dye Lab Project Worksheet
  
• All About Wool Fact Sheet