Indigo Dyeing Workshop with Madame Magar

Event Details

On Thursday, September 20, 2018 from 1 to 5 pm, members are invited to join in learning about Charleston's history with indigo; they will work with indigo and learn to die their own fabrics. Each attendee will complete their own set of indigo dyed dinner napkins.

Madam Magar is a local Charleston crafts-person. She was born in Spartanburg, SC, when it was still known as a textile mill town. She studied millinery/hat-making at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and assisted hatter Rod Keenan in Harlem. Leigh moved to Charleston, SC in 1995 to open a hat shop. Magar Hatworks sold hats to Barney's NY, Isetan Japan, and The Hat Shop/SOHO. Her work gained national press from many magazines such as the New York Times and Martha Stewart Magazine.

In 2015, Leigh moved to a farm on rural Johns Island and created a new label - Madame Magar: Inspired by art, nature, folkways and history. She created a "seed to stitch" project inspired by Eliza Lucas Pinckney - planting indigo and utilizing wild indigo (found during a morning walk in the woods) to use for one of a kind dresses, textile art, and accessories.