Sustainable practices in textiles – something old something new

Ingrid Anderson is inspired by a love of New Zealand’s native flora and fauna, textile designer Ingrid Anderson creates screen printed fabrics with an innate connection to local design, heritage and contemporary art.  Ingrid’s textile design’s are about celebrating the home with colour and personality. For Ingrid, it all began with a screen printing course more than twenty years ago at the then Auckland Technical Institute. With her fingers in the paint pots and pasting paper cut-outs onto silk screens, Ingrid felt this was far more her calling than the BA she was doing at the time. She pursued this new passion at The Quarry in Whangarei, where an inspiring tutor encouraged her to put ink to fabric.

Ingrid’s textile design’s are about celebrating the home with colour and personality.

  Graphic and vibrant pohutukawa and kowhai flowers bloomed. With more cutting and pasting—and the occasional hand-drawing—stylised native ferns, karaka, and pukeko appeared. Her abstract designs grew bigger and bolder, taking on a distinct, modernist, almost Scandinavian flavour. Concerned about quality and sustainability, Ingrid uses a local printing company and sewers to make her products. She strongly defends New Zealand made. She believes that New Zealanders should be more selective about what they buy if they’re to preserve their uniqueness. Join Ingrid on one of her Flexi Conference workshops and be inspired and/or discover ideas to enhance your teaching or surroundings.