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Tag Archives: Natural Dyeing

Orchid

Monday, December 12, 2011

Been thinking about orchids this past week. In June, I love wandering around in the woods in Vermont looking for them. There is one stretch of stream in the kingdom that just wanders around and back onto itself, creating little islands and rivulets among the roots of old cedar. There are plants that pop up [...]

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Indighosts

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Shibori is a traditional Japanese technique of compression based resist dyeing. I’ve recently been creating some simple fold and clamp shibori patterns that are often symmetrical. The indigo disperses in such a way that leaves these ghostly little impressions on the denim, and I keep thinking I am seeing faces. The apparitions remind me of [...]

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Artisanal LA

Sunday, October 24, 2010

My fingernails are purple and my studio is a mess of red and blue fabric. This past week I’ve been up to my elbows in indigo and madder, making a set of textile pieces to showcase at Artisanal LA, a foodie/growie/eaty event that is going on in downtown LA this weekend. Tara from Silver Lake [...]

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Indigo and wind.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

On a recent trip to Seattle, I stopped by Earthues, the mecca of natural color, and picked up some natural indigo pigment to tide me over until the growing project with Silver Lake Farms yields a crop of Indigofera Suffruticosa. I’ve been experimenting with a few different resist techniques for dyeing designs onto the cloth. [...]

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