I've been working with,  growing and fermenting indigo for the past three years in my home, Greenfield Massachusetts, located in the Connecticut River Valley on the traditional lands of the Nipmuc, Pocumtuc, and Abenaki peoples. I've been heavily inspired by the Deerfield Blue and White needlework society who lived just down the river from me. In the mid 1800s they  were one of the first groups in the United States to receive and  ferment indigo. They embroidered both the flowers they saw around them and the flowers that they imagined were growing in the land where the indigo came from.  Inspired by Deerfield I have been imagining the pasture plants of the future  and embroidering them in the Deerfield blue and white style, as well as branching out and making some with rice resist paste  and my own wax resist.

Thank You so much to Codo experiment for their generous guidance on rice resist!