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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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Join our friend and incredible teacher and natural

Join our friend and incredible teacher and natural pigment expert and aficionado @Nataliestopka for A Handmade Palette: Natural and Historical Watercolors
July 10th - 13th

Botanical Colors HQ!
503 S Michigan St
Seattle, WA 98108

Where does color come from? It’s a story of rocks and minerals, plants and insects, and artisan ingenuity in the service of chronic chromophilia! In this workshop we’ll delve into the history, chemistry, and hands-on practice of pigments and paint-making. Together we’ll concoct a palette of 12 handmade watercolors for participants to take home in a trusty travel paintbox.

These are inspired by pre-industrial artists’ recipes from the 14-17th century. Much of our focus will be on the glorious shades of botanical colors: lake pigments and Maya blue made from scratch. We’ll also process earth pigments and charcoal, before mixing natural paint medium and mulling our pigments into paints. Along the way, we’ll also mull over the socio-cultural and ecological entanglements of color, with stories from the artist’s studio, monastic scriptorium, and alchemist’s laboratory. Participants will leave with a paintbox of 12 watercolors, a sketchbook of recipes and swatches, and the knowledge to continue expanding their palette with thoughtfully foraged and homemade pigments. Every shade in our paintbox tells a story through its rich, characterful, handmade color.

There are still a few spots! We would love to see you there!

We have a fun impromptu takeover live on our stori

We have a fun impromptu takeover live on our stories now with Britt Boles of @seaspellfiber ! Head to our stories to ask Britt any questions you might have about growing and processing fresh indigo! She will be answering them and we will post them tomorrow.

If you’re interested in learning how to cultivate and process indigo - look no further than our workshop with Britt - Season of Blue. Purchase on our website!

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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.

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