This week on FEEDBACK FRIDAY we had Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture. We were joined by Arts & Ecology Co-Director Shannon Algiere and Member Services Center Manager and the farm’s natural dyer, Glynis Cotton. Watch the video here. Learn more about Stone Barns here. Follow them on Instagram here. For nearly two decades, […]
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Video From LIVE FEEDBACK FRIDAY: Lani Estill
This week’s FEEDBACK FRIDAY was with fiber artist and rancher, Lani Estill. Lani Estill and her family own and operate Bare Ranch, a vertically integrated diversified livestock operation producing cattle, sheep, alfalfa and grass hay. The ranch is in Northeastern California and Northwest Nevada. They practice regenerative agriculture and with the help of partners like […]
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Indigo dyeing without felting wool and what comes second and third in a 1-2-3 indigo vat?
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Saxon blue vs. indigo on plant fibers and overdyeing linen
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FEEDBLACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Getting your holiday red on
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Pungent wool and husbands, and ratios of extract to fabric.
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: How to keep yarn soft when natural dyeing it, what’s the difference between our logwood dyes and how to get bubblegum pink
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Roundup: Indigo Dyeing Questions
Each week, we are emailed with questions from our natural dye community asking simple and complex questions that we thought might be worth sharing. This week, we thought we’d curate as many indigo questions as we could pull from FEEDBACK FRIDAY’s past to give you something worth bookmarking. Of course, all of your burning questions […]
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: Saxon Blue battles Indigo for light and washfastness and tips for getting olive green.
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FEEDBACK FRIDAY: This Week in Natural Dye Questions
This week: How to start a natural dye garden, where to train in natural dyeing and how to extract color from eucalyptus.
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