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A Humble, Ingenious Leaf Mordant: Symplocos

June 2, 2025June 2, 2025

Mordant Monday: Morinda Roots and Our Time With Threads of Life

May 27, 2025June 2, 2025

Sunday Visit: Lindsay Degen of Degen Knitwear

May 18, 2025June 2, 2025

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THE LAST FEW DAYS TO SIGN UP FOR KATHY'S FOUNDATIO

THE LAST FEW DAYS TO SIGN UP FOR KATHY'S FOUNDATIONS IN NATURAL DYES

This weekend! June 7th & June 8th - 10AM-12PM Pacific Time Online. If you can't make it, no worries! The class will be recorded and you can watch at your own leisure.

We invite you to join us for one of our most exciting classes: A Foundation Course in Natural Dyes.
One of the greatest pleasures in exploring natural dyes are the endless possibilities of creating color with plants and flowers. If you’ve been bitten by the natural dye bug, natural dyes will become a lifetime of learning for you. But first, you need a solid base.

In this online workshop, we will learn to create a beautiful and harmonious palette of hues using natural dye extract concentrates and foraged natural dyes that you find locally. You will see how easy it is combining shades and modifiers to create colors that can work on their own or form a foundation for fun experiments and discoveries. You will learn the tips and tricks that we use in our own practice and production studio and how simple changes can produce surprising results.

The class will work with the dyes and auxiliaries contained in the Botanical Colors Beginner Kit. However, you will also supply your own locally foraged dyestuffs (we show you how), and we provide a complete list of materials so if you already have the dyes, you can use them for the workshop.

We will emphasize how to create beautiful color using the least amount of water and energy possible along with guidance for keeping notes and samples and how to evaluate your results.

It’s easy to become overwhelmed, but there is a method to the natural color world. This is a class that will help you gain understanding and confidence with approaching your natural dye practice. We’ll be with you every step of the way!

Wow. We’ve just gotten back from our journey to

Wow. We’ve just gotten back from our journey to Indonesia with @threadsoflifebali. It’s impossible to distill all of the incredible information we’ve learned in one simple post, but here’s to trying. We spent 6 days in their dye studio with their extensively patient and generous teachers, visited dyers, weavers, the gallery. Visited the village of Tenganan and Seraya. Learned how to process Morinda roots, symplocos, ceriops & Indigo Strobilanthus and mud dye. We made offerings, watched a 60 year old man climb a coconut tree, tasted coconut sugar, made friends with geckos and bats, enjoyed tropical down pours, learned the meaning of intergenerational collaboration, ceremony and more. We know that the downloads will only continue to unfold over the coming weeks and we will continue to share them with you all. Stay tuned for when we announce our 2026 tour… we hope to see you there.

Join Britt Boles for Fresh Indigo Five Ways + Live

Join Britt Boles for Fresh Indigo Five Ways + Live Presentation + Q&A! @Seaspellfiber
July 19th at 10am-1pm PST.

A fan favorite, learn 5 techniques for utilizing your fresh indigo plants, no vat necessary. Minimal tools and minimal processing but maximum potential for a range of fresh blues and even indirubin purples/pinks, we’ll cover: Salt mash method, blender method, tataki-zome method, stenciling with fresh leaves and soy on cellulose techniques.

You can also purchase all three units of her incredible Season Of Blue Series. Please note, Unit 1: Cultivation is a recording.

We hope to see you there!

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The Indigo Henna Vat with Shibori Techniques Taug

The Indigo Henna Vat with Shibori Techniques

Taught by Kathy Hattori

Indigo is the fabled blue of legend, history and culture and has fascinated artists and scholars for centuries. Indigo is the most popular dye that we carry and there are different ways to make an indigo vat for dipping. One of our favorites is the 1-2-3 Henna vat, where henna, this unique natural dye and body tattoo (mehndi) paint plays an integral part of an indigo vat, yielding beautiful results.

Join me as I instruct you how to create the henna vat in a 5-gallon bucket, and we’ll spend the session dipping, observing and creating beautiful dark shades. I’ll demonstrate five shibori techniques that will allow you to create beautiful patterned fabric. I’ll demonstrate the secrets to deep color, how to balance the vat, scaling to larger vats, and other tips.

You will leave this class with a clear understanding of how to build a henna vat, dip, create shibori patterns, put the vat to bed and store it.

Workshop date: Saturday, June 14 from 10AM-1PM Pacific.

We will send you the Zoom link prior to the workshop.

You will have video access until December 1, 2025.

A thank you to @threadsoflifebali for their luscious Indigo vats.

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