Debbie Maddy

Debbie Maddy is a textile artist with a passion for shibori techniques and natural indigo dye. She began her career with simple resists and has advanced to more intricate stitching as well as fold and clamp and arashi pole wrapping. Debbie has traveled to Japan twice to attend the Japanese Textile Workshops led by Bryan Whitehead at his Japanese silk farming farmhouse. The daily classes emphasized the techniques of pleating and stitching as in Katano shibori as well as pleating and wrapping for White shadow shibori. While there she attended classes with a master paste resist stencil dyer. Debbie studied in England with Jane Callender, an expert in stitched shibori. In the United States, she has been fortunate to learn from traditional Japanese artist Takayuki Ishii and African artists Gasali Adeyemo of Nigeria and Aboubakar Fofano of Mali. She searches for knowledge from all of the shibori textbooks she can acquire. She cherishes her Japanese Shibori books even though she cannot read the text. Debbie has a passion for shibori and indigo and loves sharing her art with others.