alaska Archives - Botanical Colors

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

VIDEO: An Exploration of Place and Natural Dyes, Cordova Alaska

VIDEO: An Exploration of Place and Natural Dyes, Cordova Alaska Paul Gaugin was once quoted as saying “Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.” It’s true. Those who stop to marvel at the color all around them easily see the mysteries- looking deeply into the crashing roll of a wave, the veins on a leaf, the back of a beetle tooling slowly across the yard…nature is always busy showing off. As a sustainable fashion writer and lover of natural dyes (thanks in big part to Botanical Colors), I too am in awe of how natural dyes … Read more