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For this Sunday Visit, we revisit our past Journal

For this Sunday Visit, we revisit our past Journal with Monica Medeiros of Bricolage press @bricopress.

An excerpt from our interview with Monica:

I love the ethos behind your moniker "Bricolage" - can you elaborate on tinkering & how improvisation plays a role in your practice?

My choice of "Bricolage" really started with my letterpress practice, as it very much requires one to be creative with what one has. Often times when hand setting type, one might run out of a certain letter and need to improvise by incorporating a different typeface or turning a W into an M. As my craft practices grew and became numerous, I found that this idea of improvisation seemed to resonate with each process.

In general I think that it leads me to let go of expectations, which I find to be a necessary step to creating, especially with something like natural dyes. Staying true to this is also the idea of dyeing with what you have in season. I'd love to dye with summer flowers all year long but of course that isn't realistic, even here in temperate California. Dyeing in winter really started to push my boundaries and open me up to a new world of color.

To read more of the Interview, head to our blog! And if you want to learn from Monica yourself, there is still time to sign up for her deep dive into Eco-Printing workshop!

#eco-print #botanicalcolors #bricopress #bundledye

Join us in Seattle on November 15 for a mushroom d

Join us in Seattle on November 15 for a mushroom dye workshop featuring foraged PNW fungi! We will dye a range of wool mini skeins and silk swatches.

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This Mordant Monday we dive into Pokeberry Dye Adv

This Mordant Monday we dive into Pokeberry Dye Adventures! (A reprint from our archives )

This is the season for foraging, and we have a vigorous pokeberry bush outside our studio.

Those of you who know me know that I was trained to mordant nearly everything (exception: indigo). Not mordanting something usually elicits a surprised, silent, but oh-so-judgey raised eyebrow but I found that I got better color from pokeberry by not using a mordant and that was puzzling. The interesting thing about pokeberries is that it's possible to get a brilliant color by using wool yarn and white vinegar. No alum mordant is used in this technique. And vinegar is not really considered a mordant. So here we are.

This video is from our dye explorations with the wonderful @sashaduerr while she was teaching her Forage & Dye Fall Color Palette Workshop with us in Seattle!

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