Madame Magar Vision

Madame Magar is A textile design studio, created by Leigh Magar. Madame Magar is inspired by art, mother nature, folkways, and history. Leigh is inspired by her Grandma and Great Aunts who cooked, canned and quilted from their gardens. She embraces traditional homespun sewing techniques while exploring contemporary, outside the box, thought provoking methodologies.

The studio embraces a local design philosophy that explores the history of place; Charleston, SC, a rich yet tangled place, while living and working on a former indigo plantation. Leigh’s “seed to stitch” vision was inspired by South Carolina’s Indigo story. The story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney; who as a young girl in the 1740’s had the vision to grow indigo; Indigofera suffruticosa with the hard work and knowledge of the enslaved, who made South Carolina indigo a success. The “seed to stitch'‘ project interweaves design and nature by growing Indigofera Suffruticosa and other dye plants and respectfully harvesting wild indigo, discovered on a walk in her studio woods. Madame Magar hand dyes and hand stitches cloth to use mindfully in one of a kind collections; dresses, accessories and textile art. The work includes exhibits, installations (makeshift studios and shops), performances, and classses, (for private individuals and groups).

Madame Magar has since explored Mother Natures gifts through seasonal and local plants gathered on her wild, remote and rustic 500 acre horse farm. She gathers plants respectfully from the wild woods, to teach seasonal dye classes and to transform local flora onto cloth, textile art and one of a kind hand stitched, hand dyed stories. Recently, as a Brest cancer survivor, Madame Magar interweaves local and seasonal plants, food, culture and healing into her textile art and classes.

Madame Magar is available for Exhibitions, Presentations , Pop up shops and Natural Dye Classes; private/custom dye classes also available. Please contact Leigh for details.