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  • Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Ice Dyeing with Cara Marie Piazza

    by Amy DuFault on April 11, 2021

    This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY, (our 50th episode!) was on ice dyeing with natural dye high priestess Cara Marie Piazza. Watch the video recording here: Cara Marie Piazza creates one of a kind textiles only using natural dye stuffs such as botanicals, plant matter, minerals, non-toxic metals and food wastes. She treats her fabrics through alchemical […]

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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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  • 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 December 1, 2017
    Image: Cara Marie Piazza, Calyx Each week, we are emailed with questions from our natural dye community asking simple and complex questions that we thought might be worth sharing. Here are a handful from this week answered by natural dyer in chief, Kathy Hattori, Founder of Botanical Colors: I keep reading about people dyeing their [...] Continue Reading
  • Thanksgiving Day Natural Dyeing With Food Waste

    by Amy DuFault on November 23, 2016

    Image: Vogue This Thanksgiving Day, why not do what you love and natural dye with food waste while you cook up your mid-day feast? According to Vogue, “With so many color-rich foods on most Thanksgiving menus, Vogue.com decided to get a lesson in natural food coloring, and create a set of eco-chic napkins that can […]

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  • 10 Natural Dye Instagram Feeds We Can’t Get Enough Of

    by Amy DuFault on February 13, 2015

    We love being inspired by our community and to see who is doing what and where! While some of these feeds are a little new to Instagram, others are seasoned members and continue to inspire. Here are 10 feeds we can’t stop going back to but are no means the complete list. Who have we […]

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  • Recipe! Food Waste, Indigo and Natural Dyeing With Cara Piazza

    by Amy DuFault on August 27, 2014

    This past Saturday I taught a natural dye workshop in the backyard of my friend’s Cyd and Neal’s vintage store – The Grand Street Bakery. A vintage store set in a converted old bakery, fully equipped with awesome vintage threads hanging on repurposed baking racks, stocked with natural apothecary, magazines and generally some of the […]

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  • DIY: Indigo Dye with Cara Marie Piazza

    by Amy DuFault on February 27, 2014

    Our good friend and Botanical Colors customer, textile artist Cara Marie Piazza, was recently featured in Gardenista using our rich indigo. Writer Sophia Moreno-Bunge caught up with Cara in her studio and wrote: “Indigo is an ancient color, a natural dye extracted from a plant of the same name, and the only true blue dye […]

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