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PLANT TO PIGMENT PRE ORDER – By Natalie Stopka

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Our Sashiko Thread Bundle PFD These skeins are pe

Our Sashiko Thread Bundle PFD

These skeins are perfect for creating your own sashiko thread palette from natural dyes.

You will receive one loosely twisted skein that contains 10 smaller skeins. Each small skein has one cross tie. If you are obsessive like me, you’ll want to add a second cross tie. The skeins are prepared and ready for dye but need to be mordanted first, unless you are planning to dip into indigo, and then they don’t need to be mordanted. Each skein can then be mordanted and dyed, or create your own indigo gradation, or more!

What I love about these skeins is that you can mordant a number of them and then add them to any dye pot to create a customized range of shades and nuanced hues from your dye experiments.

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10 skeins of Daruma Yokota thin sashiko thread. 10 skeins per bundle. Each skein is 40 meters – approx. 44 yards. PFD and unmordanted. Note: the photo shows a selection of dyed sashiko threads using our Japanese dyes. This product comes undyed and unmordanted.

Continuing our mordanted materials offerings, we a

Continuing our mordanted materials offerings, we are pleased to offer a fat quarter 4-pack, to inspire you to create incredible color combinations using pre-mordanted, organic cotton fabric. We use 100% cotton dead stock so the fabric may vary slightly. Right now we are working through some rolls of a beautiful lightweight satin weave sheeting.

Each bundle includes 4 fat quarters, mordanted with gallo-tannin, sumac, cutch and quebracho as the different tannins, and then with aluminum sulfate. This creates four different color bases for color explorations, and if you follow our simple instructions for creating color gradations, you can basically take your color ideas in all sorts of fun directions.

I cut up the fat quarters into 4 pieces, labeled them, and then overdyed everything in a bright yellow. Then I added a couple pieces into a light madder bath to achieve a pink shade. The rest of the yellow pieces were over-dyed with indigo to achieve a range from sea foam green to a deep blue. The results were quick because I didn’t need to mordant, and I loved the range of teal, sea glass and rich blue I was able to achieve.

Sold in packages of 4 fat quarters, each quarter is approximately 18×22 inches. Each fat quarter is mordanted with a different tannin and aluminum sulfate, and you get one of each in the pack. The tannin variables are gallo-tannin (oak galls), sumac, cutch, and quebracho. You may see some light color variation in a fat quarter: these pieces are hand-mordanted and may show some minor color differences.

To use, simply dampen the fat quarter, then proceed to an immersion dye bath. You will also get beautiful results with bundle dyeing, and you can also over-dye these fabrics in a light indigo bath to achieve wonderful blue shades.

Sunday Visit: From Plant to Pigment with Natalie S

Sunday Visit: From Plant to Pigment with Natalie Stopka - Head to our website to read the whole journal!

Natalie Stopka’s work lives at the confluence of artistry, ecology, and inquiry. A bookmaker and pigment artist attuned to the language of materials, she explores the cycles of growth, decay, and transformation through color coaxed from the natural world. Her studio practice feels like collaboration rather than control—an ongoing conversation between plant, hand, and time. In this week’s Sunday Visit, Natalie opens the doors to that world, where books are bound with patience, pigments ripen through experiment, and the intimacy of observation becomes a creative act in itself.

Her new book, From Plant to Pigment, grew from years of teaching and field research, answering the call of a community eager to revive a nearly forgotten craft. Once eclipsed by synthetic dyes, botanical pigment-making is finding new relevance in today’s studios, and Natalie has created a resource that bridges historical practice with accessible experimentation. The book invites readers to rediscover awe in the ingenuity of our artisan ancestors while demystifying the chemistry of color—transforming what might seem like alchemy into a joyful, grounded craft rooted in respect for plants, place, and process.

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