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Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Growing Dye Plants From Seed
This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY featured lots of helpful information to grow, harvest and dye with your own dye plants from seed. Watch the video here. Plant Workshop’s Milisa Moses, Botanical Colors’ President Kathy Hattori and Botanical Colors’ Sustainability Director Amy DuFault went over the basics of growing, harvesting and dyeing with your own dye plants […]
RSVP: FEEDBACK FRIDAY-The Secret Lives of Color With Kassia St. Clair
Join us March 12th, 9am Pacific, 12pm Eastern for a live Zoom FEEDBACK FRIDAY with The Secret Lives of Color author, Kassia St. Clair. Kassia St. Clair is a freelance journalist and author based in London and whose book USA Today called the “100 Books to Read While Stuck at Home During the Coronavirus Crisis!” […]
Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Natalie Stopka
This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was with natural dye artist and educator Natalie Stopka. Watch the video here. From Natalie (chat box questions answered and more!) Clothlet Resources: The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting by Daniel V. Thompson, 1956. An Anonymous 14th Century Treatise De Arte Illuminandi, The Technique of Manuscript Illumination translated by Daniel Varney Thompson, […]
Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Ayobami Adeyemo
This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was with Ayobami Adeyemo. Ayobami Adeyemo is a textile researcher/artist who studies and experiments with different dyestuffs and textile making processes. He has worked on the Indigo Shade Map team to research and study different plants that produce indigo all over the world. As of now, he is managing his own […]
Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Rust Belt Fibershed + Drift Lab Dye Studio
This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was with Sarah Pottle and Jess Boeke, twin sisters from Cleveland, OH, who are natural dyers, educators, activists, and are the co-founders of the Rust Belt Fibershed and Drift Lab Dye Studio. Watch the video here. Links we promised to put here: Rust Belt Fibershed Drift Lab Textile Co. Grounded Teaching […]
Honoring Black History Month Every Day
(Artwork: Herring Run, Kenya Miles, Founder of Blue Light Junction) Celebrate Black History Month learning about natural dyers, farmers and activists of color here on Botanical Colors. Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history. Also known as African American […]
Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Ethnobotany with Deepa Preeti Natarajan
This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was with Deepa Preeti Natarajan who guided us with ethnobotany to how we can be better plant stewards and natural dyers. Watch the video here. Deepa has been the Program Coordinator for the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley for the past 15 years having the unique opportunity to transform […]
Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Elena Phipps
This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was with Elena Phipps whose talk focused on the art history of cochineal. It also broke all of our FEEDBACK FRIDAY records with 516 RSVPS? Go Elena! Watch the video here. Elena’s presentation traced the origins of this special red color in the Americas and its role in global trade from […]
Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: TATTER Library
This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was with Jordana Munk Martin, Founder of the TATTER Library and it was so personal and beautiful and made our hearts explode. Thank you Jordana. Watch the video HERE. Links you should click to on the TATTER site: –TATTER Journal –Amazing TATTER classes & lectures –The Barbara Walker Knitting Project -Info […]
Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Honeyfolk Clothing
This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was with Heidi Iverson, Founder of Honeyfolk Clothing. Heidi was one of the original founders of Fibershed, an organization we love and respect so much. Watch the video HERE. Honeyfolk clothing is entirely handcrafted by Heidi Iverson, in her studio surrounded by second-growth Redwoods in Western Sonoma County. She also devotes […]