• Sara Buscaglia Of Farm & Folk Teaches Applique Dream Quilts

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

    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 2025! This year’s focus will be on applique to create a quilt approximately 30×30 inches. Applique is a needlework technique where fabric and motifs are stitched onto whole or pieced cloth, allowing the quilter to create beautiful, free and figurative designs on the quilt. Each participant will work with a palette of naturally dyed color created especially for this workshop. Sara will demonstrate several applique methods, guide color choices and motifs. Join us for a wonderful 5-day creative studio session dyeing fabrics, designing colorways and making hand-stitched quilts!

  • March 15th 2025 – Tannin Rainbow Online workshop with Kathy Hattori

    Online

    Description Tannin Rainbow Online workshop with Kathy Hattori Saturday March 15th, 2025 from 10AM-1PM You loved this workshop so much, we’re offering another session! The workshop will be recorded and available for 180 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.  Our exploration will reveal 32 beautiful and harmonious colors using three dyes, an indigo vat, and a touch of iron powder. Tannins are a bitter and astringent compound found so abundantly in many plants.  In food, they serve as the slight pucker in black ... 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

  • COLOR BLENDS USING NATURAL DYES ON SILK – TUCSON HANDWEAVERS & SPINNERS GUILD

    Tucson Hand Weavers Guild TBA, AZ, United States

    COLOR BLENDS USING NATURAL DYES ON SILK DATE: March 22, 23, and 24, 2025 LOCATION: Private home in Oro Valley TIME: 9:30am – 3:30pm COST: Member: $335 Non-member:$360 MATERIALS FEE: $75 includes dyes, mordants, fabrics MAX NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 14 SKILL LEVEL: All   Participants will work with color blends to create a harmonious color symphony using natural dye extracts and indigo. Each group will work in a team and dye a range of shades using concentrated natural dye powders and liquids. We will also add to the color spectrum using indigo. You will be thrilled with the unexpected and ... Read more

  • 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

  • A Nerd’s Guide to Mordanting at Sanborn Mills

    Sanborn Mills 7097 Sanborn Rd, Loudon, NH, United States

    A Nerd's Guide to Mordanting at Sanborn Mills This is the nerd’s guide to mordants – what they are, why they are important and how they are used in natural dyeing. Everyone wants to create long-lasting and beautiful plant color and the best way to do that is to mordant properly.  The class will experiment with the most popular plant-based tannins and alum accumulators, mineral salt mordants and other binders to see the effects on animal and plant fibers. Each mordant variable will be dyed so that we can see results and we will build a reference folio for students to ... Read more

  • SOLD OUT – Jogakbo Workshop with Youngmin Lee

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

    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

  • 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

    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

    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