Isabel Infante Textile Book

TEXTILE BOOK

Mexican natural dyes

Noticing that there were many dyes whose origin was Mexican, I decided to investigate and experiment for a year, month after month, a different dye. It all started with the cempasuchil flower after the Day of the Dead, then I dyed with palo campe che, beans, achiote and of course indigo and red cochineal, among much more.

Mexican natural

Coatl

Rug 47,2 x 78,7 inches

Sisal and cotton

This textile collection arises following my research on natural fibers in Mexico – and their uses. Palma, oyamel, bejuco, henequen, sanse vieria, cotton, jipijapa and lechugui lla are some of the plants that skilled local hands transform into raw material used to create objects that convey us a sense of their territory and culture.

In the context of a widespread ecosystemic crisis, it is crucial to look for natural alternatives for the manufacture of objects. My approach is to seek to innovate building on ancestral local knowledge.

Coatl detail, sisal cord on the weft and black and white cotton thread on de warp.

Textile Wall Art 23,6 x 47,2 inches

sisal and cotton

This textile collection arises following my research on natural fibers in Mexico – and their uses. Palma, oyamel, bejuco, henequen, sanse vieria, cotton, jipijapa and lechugui lla are some of the plants that skilled local hands transform into raw material used to create objects that convey us a sense of their territory and culture.

In the context of a widespread ecosystemic crisis, it is crucial to look for natural alternatives for the manufacture of objects. My approach is to seek to innovate building on ancestral local knowledge.

Coatl

Ki detail, where materials are exposed on its own and then the junction of both

Narrative Geographies

2016 Textiles Alpaca wool

Final project MA Textiles

Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London

The Narrative Geographies Project

explores local identities and the representation of the territory through textiles and their visual and tactile capacity for expression. The Altiplano is the inspiration for this work, especially the salt flats, the grasslands, the extension and the color of the north of Chile.

Details and study processes of color, materials and texture.

Manza pattern

2017 Pattern

Design of a pattern for Manza bags.

The idea was to illustrate the wicker plant with which the bags are woven, while at the same time showing through the drawing its flexibility and ability to be woven.

Ona