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First Annual Medlarama

Earlier this week I joined in a work crew composed of the ag-nouveau proponents, Silver Lake Farms, Homegrown Evolution, Winnetka Farms and Joseph Shuldiner. We harvested a crop of Medlar from an orchard in the hills north of Tehachapi. The history of the fruit and our intersection with it are beautifully described by David Karp [...]

Artisanal LA

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 [...]

Indigo and wind.

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. [...]