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2014 Men’s Fall Knitting Retreat Registration

Labor Day is the traditional date for the 2014 Men’s Fall KNitting Retreat and this year, Labor Day long weekend is Thursday, August 28th – Sunday, August 31, 2014. This retreat marks the event’s SIXTH YEAR at Dumas Bay Center in Federal Way, WA (Near Seattle) and Botanical Colors is proud to once again be part! Find a link on the Men’s Knitting Retreat site for a PDF version of the MFKR 2014 poster that you can share with your knitting group or local yarn store that explains what the Men’s Fall Knitting Retreat is all about. For more info or to … Read more

JaponTex Holiday Event – Free!

Join us Saturday December 4 at JaponTex at the historic La Conner Civic Garden Club in La Conner Washington. JaponTex is a free event for all things Japanese and features textile artists Patricia Belyea, Mary Pettus and Sylvia Pippen. The artists will be showing their holiday gift items and Botanical Colors will make an indigo vat for dipping for you to get your Mood Indigo on for the holidays. The event runs Friday through Sunday. We’ll be there Saturday from 11-4.

Three Color Ideas For the Start of Autumn

Here’s a palette with natural dye recipes suitable for that end of summer transition where the light turns golden and the air cools. The Orange Red reminds us of the underside of a liquid amber leaf; the Bright Olive is a neutral, gray-green, and the Creamy Beige is surprising in that we don’t often think about dyeing light tan shades, but this one is easy and elegant. Orange Red (on silk fabric) 15% Aluminum sulfate mordant 4% madder extract Bright Olive (on cotton muslin) 5% Aluminum Acetate mordant 5% pomegranate extract 2% marigold mix extract 1%rich logwood purple Creamy Beige … Read more

Design Week at Oregon College of Art and Craft’s “Making It Naturally”

Design week at Oregon College of Art and Craft October 4, 2014 to October 11, 2014 is going to be amazing with a solid line up of events ranging from a pop-up to panels and yes, even a class with Botanical Colors. See below. Natural Dye and Printing/Surface Design Workshop Saturday | October 4 | 9am-4pm OR Sunday | October 5 | 9am-4pm This is a singular opportunity to study the art of creative screen printing and dyeing with 100% non-toxic natural inks, dyes, fabrics and extract from experts in the fields, Kathy Hattori, president of Botanical Colors and textiles … Read more

Gone Woading

This past May, Botanical Colors was honored to host woad master Denise Lambert of Bleu de Lectoure for a weekend of woad dipping using the ancient blue dye of Europe that she and her husband revitalized in France. She brought her charming assistant, Sophie Boss and they worked their woad magic in Seattle. We started our woad adventure in my studio, measuring, stirring and a bit of praying. Seventeen mother vats for Saturday and 15 for Sunday. Once the vats were mixed, we left them overnight to rest. What a time it was woading! We started early in the … Read more

The Fine Art of Making Scissors

A good pair of scissors is a must for any craftsperson and a fine pair of handmade scissors is a very special pleasure. No wonder we keep them safely tucked away and bring them out only for those times when we are mending or stitching. When I visited Paris in the early 1990’s, I was seeking a shop that specialized in fine needle arts tools. Although there were a number of antique dealers with beautiful old sewing collections, I could not locate a sewing supply that carried wonderful professional quality scissors. Luckily, Sajou has revitalized the art of handmade scissors … Read more

DIY: Indigo Dye with Cara Marie Piazza

Our good friend and Botanical Colors customer, textile artist Cara Marie Piazza, was recently featured in Gardenista using our rich indigo. Writer Sophia Moreno-Bunge caught up with Cara in her studio and wrote: “Indigo is an ancient color, a natural dye extracted from a plant of the same name, and the only true blue dye in nature. It’s been found in ancient Egyptian mummy wrappings and was so valued by the Romans as a luxury product, the story goes, that the only people who knew how to dye with indigo were hidden away in the forest,” says Moreno-Bunge. “Because of … Read more

Natural Dye Class at Tolt Yarn and Wool

From Carnation,Washington based Tolt Yarn and Wool’s newsletter you should sign up for! “Two amazing instructors and three engaging opportunities to learn the art of yarn and fiber dyeing are coming up in August! Kathy Hattori is offering two separate workshops which will take place at Jubilee Farm in Carnation! First up is GATHERING COLOR on Saturday, August 23 from 10am to 4pm. This class teaches the basics of dyeing with traditional raw, natural dyestuffs from ancient times, including madder roots, cochineal, walnut and osage sawdust. Students will also receive a handout with information about common local dye plants plus … Read more

FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

This week: It’s all about mordanting…

Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Kassia St Clair

This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was with journalist, color historian and author of The Secret Lives of Color, Kassia St Clair. The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes, and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso’s blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. Kassia went into detail about five of those colors. … Read more