A writer, artist, lecturer and intrepid traveller, she is author of two books on Indigo, and numerous other writings. Jenny was consultant curator for the Whitworth Art gallery's 2007 touring exhibition 'Indigo, a Blue to Dye For' and consultant for two documentary films. An Honorary Research Fellow at Exeter University, and a Fellow of London's Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Asiatic Society and New York's Explorers Club. She is involved in research into dyes in shipwrecks, is a partner in 'Silk Road Connect', an educational initiative launched by cellist Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project in New York in 2009, lectures internationally and promotes revivals of natural dyes worldwide.
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