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  • Aboubakar Fofana Artist-in-Residence

    on April 5, 2022

    Botanical Colors is pleased to announce that we are hosting Aboubakar Fofana for a month-long 2022 artist-in-residency here in Seattle! Aboubakar will be teaching classes of West African traditional dyeing and stitching techniques as well as hosting a community indigo dip, farm talk and a public trunk show of his goods. “Born in Mali and […]

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  • Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: The Color Association of the U.S. (+ Aboubakar Fofana Trunk Show!)

    by Amy DuFault on December 13, 2021

    Last week, we had The Color Association of the U.S. (CAUS) plus an Aboubakar Fofana trunk show! Leslie Harrington, Executive Director of CAUS and Tess Murdoch, Senior Trend Analyst gave us some background history on CAUS and talked about how forecasting is changing and also, how they just launched their very first natural dye collection […]

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  • Construction Techniques with Aboubakar Fofana: Create a Pair of Stripcloth Trousers Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Indigo Master Dyer Aboubakar Fofana

    by Amy DuFault on April 2, 2021

    This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was with indigo master dyer and multidisciplinary artist Aboubakar Fofana. Aboubakar is based in Mali and France and updated us on his latest projects including cotton cultivation in Mali. He also talked about his indigo farm, exhibits and the workshops he is teaching with Botanical Colors this spring and summer. Watch […]

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  • Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Ethnographic Fiber + Dyes with LaChaun Moore

    by Amy DuFault on March 28, 2021

    This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was with LaChaun Moore on Ethnographic Fiber + Dyes From Black & Indigenous Farmers. Watch the video recording here: Some links from the presentation: Gist Yarn & Fiber’s Weave podcast, co-hosted by LaChaun Moore LaChaun’s articles from the Tishman Environment & Design Center Kathy and Amy who were interviewed on that […]

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  • Botanical Colors Scholarship Donations

    on November 24, 2020

    Donate to our Dye Hard T-shirt Fundraiser Collaboration with The Toronto Ink Company to help us provide scholarships to workshops with cultural treasures and natural dye masters. We’ve wanted to collaborate with Jason Logan, the founder of The Toronto Ink Company for a long time. What started out as an inside joke about his “dye […]

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  • Seven swatches of blue fabric from very pale on the left to dark navy blue on the right A Deep Dive into the 1-2-3 Indigo Vat

    by Kathy Hattori on November 18, 2020

    Indigo gradation from Aboubakar Fofana’s workshop on indigo.  The vat is a 7gpl fructose vat. Diving into indigo blue We have been working with the 1-2-3 indigo vat for nearly 10 years and over time made some adjustments to the original recipe from Michel Garcia. Here we share a recent experiment where we set up […]

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY Love Letters #3

    by Amy DuFault on August 12, 2020

    Adire Eleko, 20th century Nigeria, Yoruba Factory woven plain weave cloth, cassava paste resist with indigo dye Gift of the Christensen Fund, Seattle Art Museum FEEDBACK FRIDAY has meant so much to Kathy and I, and we know it means a lot to you too. We so appreciate all the emails and notes you send […]

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  • Video from LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Aboubakar Fofana

    by Amy DuFault on June 6, 2020

    This week, we’ve got video from our live FEEDBACK FRIDAY featuring Aboubakar Fofana. We got to take a walk through Aboubakar’s art and life’s work through a visually stunning slideshow as well as a mini-film featuring his farm in Mali, West Africa. We’ve never had more emails thanking us for giving access to such an […]

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  • Botanical Bundle Dyeing Kit Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Cara Marie Piazza

    by Amy DuFault on June 1, 2020

    This week, we’ve got video from our live FEEDBACK FRIDAY featuring natural dyer and artist Cara Marie Piazza. Cara took us through her process foraging for and utilizing flower and food waste in Brooklyn. We also just opened up registration for two online classes with Cara Marie Piazza taking place June 6th and June 27th […]

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  • FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions

    by Amy DuFault on July 26, 2019

    This week: scouring, reducing, hydrating and are fresh flowers better than dry flowers for natural dyeing?

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