Workshop Recording: Fresh Indigo Five Ways – Blender, Salt, Tataki-Zome and More!

Workshop Recording: Fresh Indigo Five Ways – Blender, Salt, Tataki-Zome and More! Recorded workshop taught by Brittany Boles, Seaspell Fiber The recording is available for 90 days after purchase! Do you have a Japanese Indigo (Persicaria tinctoria) patch and aren’t quite sure what to do with it? Brittany Boles has suggestions for using the fresh leaf in a number of ways to extract beautiful colors including a lovely violet from the residue of fresh plants. We are excited to host Brittany Boles of Seaspell Fiber in this recorded workshop using fresh leaf indigo (Persicaria tinctoria) and an array of techniques … Read more

Sustainable Team Building Events and Corporate Gifts

We offer sustainable team building events, workshops AND corporate gifting options. Read below to learn more about our offerings! Private and Team Building Events Botanical Colors hosts fun, engaging, and unique interactive natural dyeing events for team building, corporate events, and more. We’ve worked with companies such as Levi’s, Google, Instagram & PayPal and many more to plan creative and fun events for both their employees and customers.Β  New to natural dyeing? No worries! With over 10 years of experience in education and event planning, let us plan the best possible event for your team. Not only will your team … 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. Β Each bundle of 10 skeins is one tannin color that is also mordanted in aluminum potassium sulfate. Β 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

Recording: Foundation Course in Natural Dyes With Kathy Hattori

Recording: Foundation Course in Natural Dyes with Kathy Hattori Download link is added to your Botanical Colors account dashboard upon purchase. Β Please check under Downloads on your dashboard for access. If any questions, please email [email protected] 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 just become a lifetime of learning for you. But first, you need a … Read more

Online Workshop: Lake Pigments for Painting with Soy with Natalie Stopka

Lake Pigments for Painting with Soy with Natalie Stopka Online recorded Zoom workshopΒ  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. Β 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. Natalie writes: Transforming natural dyes into lake pigments gives them substance and … Read more

Online workshop: Shibori Burst Eco-Print with Kristin Field

Shibori Burst Eco-Print with Kristin Field We first introduced you to Kristin Field of Field & GardnerΒ  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 Β 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 … Read more

Fern Herbarium Journal by June & December

We are excited to present a new product line that is perfect for the gardener, journal keeper, and flower-printer from June & December, a nature-inspired design studio based in Michigan. We know we have a lot of gardeners, bundle dyers and eco-printers in our community, so we wanted to equip you with beautiful and useful tools you need for this gardening season.Β  Inspired by Italian botanical garden herbariums (a collection of dried plant specimens preserved to observe, understand and study), June & December designed their linen-covered Herbarium Botanical Specimen Collecting Journal to hold personal collections of pressed specimens as a … Read more

Glass Specimen Bottles from June & December

Up your collecting game with this assortment of glass specimen bottles and matching corks. These cork-topped glass specimen storage bottles from June & December are so handy for holding small, precious foraged discoveries: seeds, buttons or anything else that catches your fancy and fits in these petite vessels. They are flat bottomed and can stand upright to display a tiny treasure, and they make a lovely small-scale display. Β Use these for extra seed storage with our June & December Seed Collecting Kit. Β Bring out the naturalist in you with these glass specimen bottles and matching corks! We offer a set … Read more

Japanese Surikomi brushes

Surikomi are traditional, handmade Japanese brushes used for textile painting. Β We offer a range of sizes from a tiny, tiny 0.5 beautiful for pinpoint marks and stipples to the popular larger sizes, that are perfect for larger marks. The brushes are hand carved from a single piece of bamboo, split to hold a round clump of soft deer hair, then seated in a paper “ferrule”, lacquered and stitched together to hold the bristles in place. Β They are works of art themselves. The dense bristle arrangement allows them to hold significant amounts of pigment and they are suitable for applying washes … Read more

Sunday Visit: Kristin Field of Field & Gardener

For Sunday Visit, Botanical Colors sits down for an interview with a luminary in the natural dye, textile and art world. This week we visit with the inimitable Kristin Field of Field & Gardener who has an upcoming workshop with us! Grab a cup of tea and settle in to learn about someone you never knew! Catch up on all our Sunday Visits here. We are huge admirers of your Shibori bursts, can you tell us about how this process originated for you? Thank you so much! When I first learned about capping, the thought of putting an ecoprint in the … Read more