Resources
A Natural Dyer’s Journal
An Invitation to Explore
The Chesapeake Fibershed is looking to explore in community an earth centered practice of finding colors for our textiles from within in our landscape. Our intent is to open our dialog and the beginning of a series of invitations and forays intothe colors of our local...
Autumn Harvest
by Kerstin Zurbrigg We are taking a seasonal approach to working with plant and mineral pigments as a dye source by harvesting towards working with three or four locally growing plants. This season we chose to work with fruit, seed, blossom and beyond in an...
Natural Dyer Highlight: Janet Garman
I recently had the opportunity to talk with Janet Garman for my podcast (The Flying Goat Farm Podcast). Janet is a fiber farmer and owner of Timbercreek Farm. She has a mixture of sheep who provide her with beautiful fleeces which get made into yarn. Janet grew...
Notes from the Natural Dye Pot: Plum Leaves
Electric and deeply connected to the seasons, the plum tree has a fine tuned, sensitive conduit to the temperaments of our changing and challenging seasons. The plum tree is a native of this landscape although here, in the urban/suburban landscapes of the DC...
Seed Stories: Hopi Sunflower Dye Plants
In our fibershed there are some twenty varieties of sunflower growing wild–some are native and some have traveled from pocket or packet to become a part of our wilder and cultivated landscapes. The fresh flowers of many species can be used to create vibrant yellow...