TEOTITLÁN DEL VALLE, Mexico — As a child, Porfirio Gutiérrez hiked into the mountains above the village with family members each fall, collecting the plants they would use to make colorful dyes for ...
As a textile designer, Maria learned extraction and dyeing techniques from her team of dyers and weavers in Oaxaca, Mexico, so she could better understand how to get an exact color from plants, seeds, ...
STATEN ISLAND N.Y. -- Easter is the time of year to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. And, you know, just color some dang eggs for the kids. Step into our oval office, where the SILive team tested ...
Cultivating beds of indigo, marigolds, dahlias, hibiscus, and goldenrod, Pratt Institute students are exploring how to make natural dyes from seed to harvest. The Textile Dye Garden was planted in ...
In a former dairy barn outside of Gap, Winona Quigley hangs a rainbow of yarn bundles, each color rooted in plants. The palette expands in the dye house, where avocado pits turn T-shirts pink, flower ...
Sew Valley’s plant-based dye course will teach participants of all skill levels how to manipulate fabric and indigo plants to produce a rich blue color that is sustainable, unique, and free of toxic ...
Have old fabrics or clothes that need a refresh? Join The ARTery for an at-home dyeing workshop with artist and The ARTery 25 member Stephen Hamilton! Stephen will teach us how to transform fabrics at ...
"Potential for creating designs in textiles can be seen even in the physical properties of cloth. The simple fact that cloth tightly compressed into wrinkles or folds resists the penetration of dye is ...
This is how I know I’ve been cooped up with downcast distance-learning teens for too long: I spent multiple days dyeing T-shirts and damask napkins with food scraps and foraged plants from my ...