India Flint

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India Flint


Born
Melbourne, Australia
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Art


Textile artist, dye developer.

India Flint was born in Melbourne, Australia, but celebrated her first three birthdays in Montreal, Canada. This not only set a nomadic pattern, it meant that when starting her formal education on the family’s eventual return to Australia, learning to speak English was the initial hurdle. Her first attempts at stitching were guided by her maternal grandmother, an infinitely patient re-threader of needles, who overdyed faded garments in various combinations of tea leaves, calendulas and onion skins. As a child, she discovered felt by accident, whilst vigorously scrubbing wool gathered from barbed wire fences near Werribee. Her fascination for textiles was greatly encouraged by her mother, who always seemed to ha
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The Bundle Book

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Stuff, Steep + Store

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Eco Colour

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