This week: Cochineal for more than textiles and how long does it keep, and what to do about a murky alum bath
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: It’s all about mordanting…
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Let’s talk indigo…
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EXHIBIT: The Drawing Center Features ‘Thread Lines’
IF IN NYC….”This group exhibition features sixteen artists who engage in sewing, knitting, and weaving to create a wide-range of works that activate the expressive and conceptual potential of line and illuminate affinities between the mediums of textile and drawing. Multi-generational in scope, Thread Lines brings together those pioneers who—challenging entrenched modernist hierarchies—first unraveled the […]
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Gamma Folk’s Lily Piyathaisere on Natural Dyes, Boy Scouts and Brooklyn
We always love seeing how Botanical Colors can be applied to so many different mediums through the hands of talented artists. Brooklyn-based Lily Piyathaisere of Gamma Folk is new to our natural dye family and we are pretty crazy about her jewelry. Lily says her vision is to “combine traditional techniques with thoughtful, statement jewelry. […]
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DIY: Indigo Dye with Cara Marie Piazza
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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Finding Artistic Inspiration on Pinterest
Carol Shaw-Sutton Art There are so many wonderful textile artists and natural inspiration around us daily, so much so that sometimes it's hard to settle and do our own work! When we first started the Botanical Colors Pinterest page, the idea was to savor what we loved most, give it a rest stop so we [...] Continue Reading