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Tannin Grayscale with Cara Marie Piazza

Tannin Grayscale Online workshop with Cara Piazza Online workshop held on Saturday January 25, 2025 10AM-1PM Pacific / 1 – 4pm Eastern The workshop will be recorded and available for 120 days after purchase. Learn how to create moody gray gradations using our pre-mordanted cotton fabric fat quarters, natural dyes, logwood and a few surprises. Tannins are a bitter and astringent compound found so abundantly in many plants. In food, they serve as the slight pucker in black coffee and tea, and the “oaky” flavor in aged wines. Tannins are used in medicine and for leather tanning. For us, … Read more

Mushroom Flour Sack Towel

Mushroom Flour Sack Towel We love all things mushroom and are very pleased to offer a limited edition screen-printed flour sack towel from June & December, a dynamic nature-based goods company in Michigan, who celebrate all the ways that nature connects us. The towel is 100% natural flour sack cotton, machine washable and soft and absorbent. The charming mushroom print includes all sorts of edible mushrooms. Enjoy in your harvest kitchen, or perfect as a gift. – 25” x 26” towel – 100% natural flour sack cotton – Screen printed with eco-friendly inks – Towel size + colors may vary … Read more

Tannin Rainbow Online workshop with Kathy Hattori

Tannin Rainbow Online workshop with Kathy Hattori Online workshop held on Saturday January 18, 2025 10AM-1PM Pacific The workshop will be recorded and available for 120 days after purchase. Learn how to create striking color gradations using our pre-mordanted cotton fabric fat quarters, natural dyes, indigo and a few surprises. Tannins are a bitter and astringent compound found so abundantly in many plants. In food, they serve as the slight pucker in black coffee and tea, and the “oaky” flavor in aged wines. Tannins are used in medicine and for leather tanning. For us, they are the natural dyer’s not-so-secret-weapon … Read more

Second Series – Naturally Dyed Cotton Fat Quarters

Second Series – Naturally Dyed Cotton Fat Quarters We are pleased to offer a second series of naturally dyed cotton fat quarters from a project we overdyed to make a number of gorgeous colors. This new drop is 100% cotton muslin. All the fabrics are scoured, mordanted and dyed with different natural dye colors. We made a number of natural dye gradations and overdyed some of them with indigo. The result is a beautiful array of distinctive colors perfect for stitching, piecework and patchwork. Each bundle includes 4 fat quarters. Each fat quarter is a generous size: approximately 21×33 inches … Read more

Jogakbo Workshop with Youngmin Lee

Jogakbo Workshop with Youngmin Lee We are so excited to host the renowned Korean Textile Artist Youngmin Lee May 1st – 4th, 2025 (Thursday-Sunday) 10AM to 4PM Botanical Colors 503 S Michigan St, Ste B Seattle WA 98108 Bojagi are traditional Korean wrapping cloths. They were used to wrap, cover, carry, or store objects in daily life, on special occasions, and in religious rituals. Koreans believe that bojagi can not only wrap an object but can also enclose bok (福, 복, good fortune or happiness). The act of making bojagi also carries wishes for the well-being and happiness of … Read more

Tannin and alum mordanted fat quarter blanks

Tannin and alum mordanted fat quarter blanks. 10-5-24 Availability: These fat quarters have been so popular, we’re a little behind in our production of them. They are in the mordant process now, and should be ready to ship early next week. Thank you for your patience! 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. Each bundle includes 4 fat quarters, mordanted with gallo-tannin, sumac, cutch and quebracho and aluminum sulfate. This creates four different color bases for color explorations, and if … Read more

THE ART OF PASTEL with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber

THE ART OF PASTEL with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber We are so excited to host Brittany Boles for a new one day workshop! December 7th, 2025 10AM to 3PM Botanical Colors 503 S Michigan St, Ste B Seattle WA 98108 Join us Saturday December 7th from 10am-3pm at Botanical Colors Studio for an immersive workshop with Britt Boles on the art of plant to handcrafted pastel. Learn the history of pastel, binder and fixative recipes, and create your own set of plant-based soft pastels with Botanical Colors premium pigments and natural dye lakes. About your teacher: When … Read more

Sara Buscaglia Of Farm & Folk Teaches Applique Dream Quilts

Sara Buscaglia Of Farm & Folk Teaches Applique Dream Quilts February 5-9, 2025 (Wednesday-Sunday) 10AM to 4PM Botanical Colors 503 S Michigan St, Ste B Seattle WA 98108 Sara Buscaglia of wildly popular Farm & Folk has captured our imagination with her beautifully designed quilts and color work using natural dyes that she grows on her farm in Durango, Colorado. Each piece tells a story about her commitment to farming, land stewardship, and the joy and dignity of hand work. We are so pleased to have her return and teach a 5-day quilting workshop in Seattle with us in February … Read more

Java Handspun Cotton Scarf

Java handspun cotton scarf is a lightweight handspun, handwoven traditional textile from Tuban, East Java, Indonesia. These beautiful scarves are from our friends at Threads of Life, in Ubud, Bali. Created from locally grown cotton and woven on a backstrap loom, this elegant and simple scarf is perfect for gifting or as a base for natural dyes. It takes natural colors and indigo beautifully and is perfect for a casual evening or beach wrap. We scoured the scarf to remove starch and wax and it is now ready for an indigo or mordant bath. The scarf has twisted fringes and … Read more

Handwoven Hemp-Cotton Yardage

Handwoven Hemp-Cotton Yardage This handwoven-hemp-cotton-yardage fabric is handwoven in rural Romanian villages from locally grown, processed and spun hemp. The fabric is vintage and no longer being produced. The towels are a sturdy plain weave in a hemp cotton blend. These towels are wonderful for the bath or kitchen and grow softer with use. They are also great for dyeing, printing or painting with natural dyes. Sold in one yard increments. If you’d like more than one yard, simply increase the number of yards and we will send you one length of fabric. The fabric is 14-16 inches wide. Hemp … Read more