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  • Lake Pigments for Painting with Soy with Natalie Stopka

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    Lake Pigments for Painting with Soy with Natalie Stopka
    Online recorded Zoom workshop 
    Saturday October 26, 2024
    10AM-1PM Pacific, 1PM-4PM Eastern

    Natalie is a remarkable instructor, smart, encouraging, organized and her popular workshops make pigments and paints so accessible.  We are thrilled to have her teach us how to create your own paints using lake pigments and the humble soy bean. Join us for a half-day of guided information as Natalie demonstrates making pigments and then transforms them into beautiful paints suitable for cloth, paper and other applications.

  • Online workshop: Shibori Burst Eco-Print with Kristin Field

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    Shibori Burst Eco-Print with Kristin Field

    We first introduced you to Kristin Field of Field & Gardner  and her incredible work through our social media series Takeover Tuesday. You loved her intricate Eco-printed Shibori circles so much that we decided to offer a workshop with her this fall! Join us for an online workshop where you can watch her demonstrate the techniques that she uses to create unique and beautiful eco-printed shibori.

    Join Kristin  for a one-day online workshop where you will learn to design, stitch, cap, indigo dye, and eco-print with pressed coreopsis flowers to create unique shibori burst designs. Kristin began making these indigo & coreopsis designs in 2021, and this is the first time she will be sharing her techniques in a workshop! 

  • Tannin Rainbow Online workshop with Kathy Hattori

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    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

  • Twilight Tannins with Cara Marie Piazza (Formerly Tannin Grayscale) – March 16th

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    Description Twilight Tannins Online workshop with Cara Piazza Formerly called Tannin Grayscale MARCH 16TH, 2025  10AM PST / 1PM EST  The workshop will be recorded and available for 180 days after purchase. The backstory: Cara is famous for her moody, New York state of mind color palettes, and the tannin mordanted fat quarters are perfect for showing off these rich shades with subtle colorations and unusual hues.  We called her workshop “Tannin Grayscale” as a nod to graphic designers who will add a touch of gray to a color in order to create a more vivid hue.  However, now that ... Read more

  • Season of Blue Workshop Series with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber

    Season of Blue Workshop Series with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber
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    Virtual Event

    Season of Blue Workshop Series with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber Indigo doula Britt Boles is back with an expanded offering: a three part-series on cultivating, fresh processing techniques, and extracting indigo pigment from Japanese Indigo (Persicaria Tinctoria). Join Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber, Indigofest, and creator of the global network Indigo Pigment Extraction Methods, for a comprehensive growing season with our dye garden’s favorite blue.  Japanese Indigo is an excellent project for anyone both new and experienced to gardening & naturally dyeing alike.  Be one of the first 25 to sign up and receive a special gift: Courtesy of ... Read more

  • Foundation Course in Natural Dyes with Kathy Hattori

    Botanical Colors Seattle 503 S Michigan St, Ste B, Seattle, WA, United States
    Virtual Event

    Online via Zoom Saturday June 7 & Sunday June 8, 2025 10AM-12PM Pacific Time 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 ... Read more

  • Season of Blue Workshop Series with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber

    Season of Blue Workshop Series with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber
    Online
    Virtual Event

    Season of Blue Workshop Series with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber Indigo doula Britt Boles is back with an expanded offering: a three part-series on cultivating, fresh processing techniques, and extracting indigo pigment from Japanese Indigo (Persicaria Tinctoria). Join Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber, Indigofest, and creator of the global network Indigo Pigment Extraction Methods, for a comprehensive growing season with our dye garden’s favorite blue.  Japanese Indigo is an excellent project for anyone both new and experienced to gardening & naturally dyeing alike.  Be one of the first 25 to sign up and receive a special gift: Courtesy of ... Read more

  • Season of Blue Workshop Series with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber

    Season of Blue Workshop Series with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber
    Online
    Virtual Event

    Season of Blue Workshop Series with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber Indigo doula Britt Boles is back with an expanded offering: a three part-series on cultivating, fresh processing techniques, and extracting indigo pigment from Japanese Indigo (Persicaria Tinctoria). Join Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber, Indigofest, and creator of the global network Indigo Pigment Extraction Methods, for a comprehensive growing season with our dye garden’s favorite blue.  Japanese Indigo is an excellent project for anyone both new and experienced to gardening & naturally dyeing alike.  Be one of the first 25 to sign up and receive a special gift: Courtesy of ... Read more

  • From Plant to Pigment Launch Party with Natalie Stopka

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    From Plant to Pigment  Launch Party with Natalie Stopka Online Session Hosted by Botanical Colors Friday, November 7 10-11am PST 1-2:00pm EST Celebrate the launch of From Plant to Pigment: How to make your own vibrant inks, pastels and paints with author Natalie Stopka. Published by Skittledog Books, this studio manual is full of recipes transforming natural dyes into vibrant lake pigments. Explicating the fundamental techniques and chemistry of lakes, this book extends the applications of natural dye colors into expanded artistic media. Our online launch party will feature behind-the-scenes tales (triumphs and tribulations!), a peek inside Natalie’s traveling pigment ... Read more

  • Creating Color – FREE ONLINE ZOOM SESSION WITH KATHY HATTORI

    Botanical Colors Seattle 503 S Michigan St, Ste B, Seattle, WA, United States

    Join Creating Color—a new free monthly Zoom session with Kathy Hattori of Botanical Colors, created to inspire and deepen your understanding of natural dyes. Each month, we’ll explore an exciting theme on how to create a full spectrum of color from nature—sharing insights, stories, and practical techniques to bring your dye practice to life. Can’t make it live? Every session will be recorded and available later on our YouTube channel, so you can keep learning whenever inspiration strikes. This session Kathy does a deep dive into one of our favorite dyes - Madder. To sign up - please register via ... Read more