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  • Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Nienke Hoogvliet

    by Amy DuFault on August 1, 2021

    This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY we had Nienke Hoogvliet talking about our new favorite topic: seaweed dye. Studio Nienke Hoogvliet, is a design studio for material research, experimental and conceptual design. The studio engages in freelance projects for different companies and institutions but also continues research in self-initiated design projects. The studio is based in […]

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  • Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Claire Wellesley-Smith

    by Amy DuFault on July 23, 2021

    This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY we had artist, researcher and author based in West Yorkshire, UK, Claire Wellesley-Smith. Claire specializes in projects that use local, natural color, created from home-grown and locally foraged plants. She talked about her practice and some of her community-based projects; including an ongoing Stitch Journal now into its eighth year […]

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  • Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Dogwood Dyer

    by Amy DuFault on May 21, 2021

    This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was with Liz Spencer also known as The Dogwood Dyer. As a mother to three young children, Liz talked about the evolution and adaptation of her natural dye practice, her insatiable thirst for a deeper understanding of natural dyes and the fine balance of caring for others while carving out time […]

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  • Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Alabama Chanin

    by Amy DuFault on May 15, 2021

    This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was with Alabama Chanin founder and creative director, the amazing Natalie Chanin. We talked about Natalie’s design journey, a sense of place and Alabama Chanin’s seed to shelf/cottage industry business model, the design process and working with natural dyes, as well as thoughts on the future of making. Shop our Alabama […]

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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
  • 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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  • Studio Time with Brooklyn’s Dogwood Dyer

    by Amy DuFault on June 4, 2014

    Studio time is always inspiring and we were more than happy to welcome Liz Spencer of The Dogwood Dyer from Brooklyn a few weeks ago. Liz creates hand made accessories and garments from ethically sourced fibers and dyestuffs from the country and along roadsides surrounding New York City. She also grows some of her dyes […]

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