This week, we’ve got video from our live FEEDBACK FRIDAY featuring Rebecca Burgess of Fibershed. Rebecca Burgess is the executive director of Fibershed, chair of the board for Carbon Cycle Institute, and the author of Harvesting Color as well as Fibershed-Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy. Watch […]
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Organic Jeans, Naturally Sourced & Indigo Dyed in Northern California
The San Francisco Chronicle writes: “Rebecca Burgess is on a quest for the perfect jeans. And by perfect, she means a good fit, but also something much deeper than that. Her denim has to have a good conscience. Her dream pants need to be made without heavy metal-based synthetic dyes that pollute the environment, woven […]
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New Dye Journal In Bay Area An Impressive Collective of Natural Dyers
What a fantastic new dye journal by PlantsPeople, based out of the Bay area and totally readable online. Contact Deepa Preeti Natarajan, founder of PlantsPeople if you’d like a hard copy otherwise read here. Including the brilliant minds of Rebecca Burgess of Fibershed, Sasha Duerr of the Permacouture Institute, Kristine Vejar of A Verb for […]
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10 Natural Dye Instagram Feeds We Can’t Get Enough Of
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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The Top 5 Natural Dye Stories That Had You Clicking…
Each week, we take a look at the last to see what the stories were on our Facebook and Twitter feeds that had you clicking through. Here are the top 5 that had some resonance with you! Natural Dyes and Papermaking on The Fiber Wire: “These natural dye experiments started with standing in line at […]
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