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Symplocos Plant Mordant

11/18 – Preorder as this product arrives this week! Thank you! We are happy to offer symplocos (Symplocos cochinchinensis) dried leaf powder as a plant mordant from Indonesia. The fallen leaves are hyperaccumulators, rich in alum from endangered forests. As a result, we support a sustainable crop rather than felling trees for their lumber, or supporting industrial mining. As natural dyers, we have access to various plant-derived tannins for mordanting options. However, there are few alum-accumulators available to us in commercial form. Symplocos offers an exciting alternative. The Plant Mordant Project offers natural dyers a unique opportunity to make reliable … Read more

The Botanical Colors Beginner’s Dye Kit

The Beginner’s Dye Kit Discovering the world of natural dyes for the first time is one of those seismic psychic shifts where suddenly everything is a potential dyestuff. That red that came from your farmer’s market amaranth flowers, the seed from your avocado toast that friends say “gives the most amazing dusty rose”, the flowers dropping onto the streets and sidewalks leaving stains of red, purple and yellow…the possibilities are endless. Your mind is zinging and you wonder if that color could change the color of your clothing, but how to begin experimenting? The Beginner’s Dye Kit is a curated … Read more

Tannin Grayscale with Cara Marie Piazza

Tannin Grayscale Online workshop with Cara Piazza Online workshop held on Saturday January 25, 2025 10AM-1PM Pacific / 1 – 4pm Eastern The workshop will be recorded and available for 120 days after purchase. Learn how to create moody gray gradations using our pre-mordanted cotton fabric fat quarters, natural dyes, logwood 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, … Read more

THE ART OF PASTEL with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber

THE ART OF PASTEL with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber We are so excited to host Brittany Boles for a new one day workshop! December 7th, 2024 10AM to 3PM Botanical Colors 503 S Michigan St, Ste B Seattle WA 98108 Join us Saturday December 7th from 10am-3pm at Botanical Colors Studio for an immersive workshop with Britt Boles on the art of plant to handcrafted pastel. Learn the history of pastel, binder and fixative recipes, and create your own set of plant-based soft pastels with Botanical Colors premium pigments and natural dye lakes. About your teacher: When … Read more

Mushroom Flour Sack Towel

Mushroom Flour Sack Towel We love all things mushroom and are very pleased to offer a limited edition screen-printed flour sack towel from June & December, a dynamic nature-based goods company in Michigan, who celebrate all the ways that nature connects us. The towel is 100% natural, ecru-colored flour sack cotton, machine washable and soft and absorbent. The charming mushroom print includes all sorts of edible mushrooms. Enjoy in your harvest kitchen, or perfect as a gift. – 25” x 26” towel – 100% natural, unbleached flour sack cotton (light ecru background) – Screen printed with eco-friendly inks – Towel … Read more

Tannin Rainbow Online workshop with Kathy Hattori

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

Jogakbo Workshop with Youngmin Lee

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

Tannin and alum mordanted fat quarter blanks

Tannin and alum mordanted fat quarter blanks. Continuing our mordanted materials offerings, we are pleased to offer a fat quarter 4-pack, to inspire you to create incredible color combinations using pre-mordanted, organic cotton fabric. Each bundle includes 4 fat quarters, mordanted with gallo-tannin, sumac, cutch and quebracho and aluminum sulfate. This creates four different color bases for color explorations, and if you follow our simple instructions for creating color gradations, you can basically take your color ideas in all sorts of fun directions. This morning, I cut up the fat quarters into 4 pieces, labeled them, and then overdyed everything … Read more

Sara Buscaglia Of Farm & Folk Teaches Applique Dream Quilts

Sara Buscaglia Of Farm & Folk Teaches Applique Dream Quilts February 5-9, 2025 (Wednesday-Sunday) 10AM to 4PM Botanical Colors 503 S Michigan St, Ste B Seattle WA 98108 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 … Read more

Tannin + Alum Mordanted Sashiko Thread Bundle

Tannin + Alum Mordanted Sashiko Thread Bundle We are now offering our popular PFD sashiko threads mordanted in three different, beautiful tannin shades. Each bundle of 10 skeins is one tannin color that is also mordanted in aluminum potassium sulfate. This is an easy mordant option to create gradations and nuanced color in your stitching and dye work. The three mordant options are Gallo Tannin (Oak galls), known as a “clear” tannin with a creamy coloration that imparts virtually no shade differences from regular alum mordants. Sumac Tannin, imparts a subtle, soft yellow undertone to many colors, and shifts light … Read more