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Fashion Whirled Feature: Get Your Dye On during Charleston’s Sea Island Indigo Retreat, Sept 18-20

Thanks so much to Kim Cihlar of Fashion Whirled for this great article on our upcoming retreat! Kim writes: “For those of you following NYFW, you may be thinking of giving your own Spring/Summer 2015 style more of a DIY spin. Then hie thee down South to Charleston for the three-day Sea Island Indigo Retreat weekend September 18-20th, being held at the organic Rebellion Farm in Ravenel, SC! There you’ll learn the fine and historically-based art of indigo dyeing, using indigo from a field raised solely for this workshop. But hurry and sign up while there are still spots available. You won’t … Read more

Fun Natural Dye Chart by Collective Individual

Do you know what natural dyes make what colors? We loved coming across this fun chart from Collective Individual.

VIDEO: Botanical Colors’ Founder Kathy Hattori in Cordova, Alaska

This video with Botanical Colors Founder Kathy Hattori in Cordova, Alaska looks at foraging and natural dyeing. Kathy travels to Cordova to teach a workshop on local color. In addition to foraging sustainably for natural dye plants on glaciers, Kathy and crew explored regional color through flowers, lichen and a little sprinkling of Botanical Colors’ own extracts. This video was part of the shorts program at Mountainfilm. Mountainfilm is a documentary film festival that showcases documentaries about environmental, cultural, political and social justice issues. The film festival is in Telluride, Colorado. You can learn more about our experience in Alaska … Read more

Rescheduled – Online Workshop: Foundation Course in Natural Dyes With Kathy Hattori

Rescheduled: Foundation Course in Natural Dyes with Kathy Hattori (Apologies, I contracted Covid returning from my Bali trip and am not well enough to teach the original dates) New Date and Time: Online via Zoom Saturday July 19 & Sunday 20, 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 … Read more

Video: FEEDBACK FRIDAY Q&A With Botanical Colors’ Founder Kathy Hattori

Last week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY we had Botanical Colors Founder Kathy Hattori. Kathy answered as many of your natural dye questions as she had time for (there were many)! Watch the recording below. FEEDBACK FRIDAY If you are not familiar with FEEDBACK FRIDAY, every week we speak with dyers, artists, scientists and scholars about our favorite topic, natural dyeing and color. Curated by Amy DuFault, Botanical Colors’ Sustainability and Social Media Director and presented by Botanical Colors’ Founder Kathy Hattori. We even have our own theme song thanks to musician Jimmie Snider (click here to hear more of his music)!

RSVP: LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY With Botanical Colors’ Founder Kathy Hattori

Join us September 11th, 9am Pacific, 12 pm Eastern for a live Zoom FEEDBACK FRIDAY with Botanical Colors’ Founder Kathy Hattori. We are going old school this week with Kathy answering all the natural dye/mordant/process questions we can get to. Send your questions ahead of time to me (Amy) at [email protected]. RSVP for FEEDBACK FRIDAY with Kathy Hattori HERE. What Botanical Colors Does: The way that conventional color is applied to clothes is broken. “Wet processing” as industrial dyeing is called, is one of the top polluters in the world, consuming enormous amounts of energy, water and petrochemical based colorants. … Read more

The Colors of Bali and Indonesia

with Threads of Life: Traditional dye practice and indigenous textiles May 16-28, 2025 Overview of The Colors of Bali and Indonesia Our group will be led by Kathy Hattori and Cara Piazza of Botanical Colors, and Jean Howe and William Ingram of Threads of Life. Our studio instructors include talented Indonesian textile teachers from Threads of Life and affiliated artisans, who have worked with Jean and William for many years. This tour provides an opportunity to meet and learn from Indonesian artists and indigenous communities with insight and connections that will endure long after our visit is over. Studio time … Read more