Natural Dyes + Pigments
My natural dye practice is an ongoing exploration into plant color.
Textile design, fiber art, and watercolor + pigment making using foraged, homegrown, and food waste dye materials.
Linen swatches dyed with spruce cones from the backyard.
Silk / linen / cotton dyed with fresh leaf indigo using the salt method. Japanese indigo (Persicaria tinctoria) grown from seeds from Grand Prismatic Seed.
Naturally dyed + hand-torn silk ribbon collection available on ETSY. Learn more.
Eco-printing hibiscus petals on silk.
Silk bundle dyed with wild violets collected from the backyard.
Silk + linen bundle dyed / silk dyed with Queen Sophia marigolds grown from seeds.
Poke weed watercolor pigment + modifiers. Poke weed from the yard.
Grape leaf watercolor pigment + modifiers. Grape leaves from the yard.
Both palettes, left to right: plain pigment / pigment + iron / pigment + sodium bicarbonate / pigment + lemon juice / pigment + white vinegar.
Foraged poke weed lake pigment.
Woven wall hanging WIP. From top to bottom: undyed wool / avocado pit dyed wool / avocado pit dyed silk / acorn dyed wool / acorn dyed silk / red onion skin dyed cotton.
Dip dye tapestry 01 / wool yarn dyed with onion skins and iron hanging on driftwood.
Dip dye tapestry 02 / cotton yarn dyed with indigo hanging on driftwood.
Silk bundle dyed with foraged hibiscus petals.
Dyeing swatches with fresh leaf indigo using the salt method.
Queen Sophia marigold lake pigment.
Naturally dyed cotton, silk, and linen hair scrunchies.
Patchwork pillows woven with naturally dyed cotton, linen, silk, and wool textiles and yarn.
Frayed edge linen napkins dyed with avocado pits and skins.
Ground plant pigments ready to be made into paint.
"Angel from Montgomery" lyric brush lettered with avocado waste watercolor paint.
Ole Christopher hand lettered with red cabbage watercolor paint.
Naturally dyed silk ribbon in "speckle," 1 and 2 inch spools.
Collecting spruce cones in the backyard for dyeing.
Silk ribbon in retired tone, "hops."
Silk bundle dyed with red and yellow onion skins.
Silk drying on the clothesline.
Silk and linen dyed with avocado waste and osage wood for custom table linens.
Miller Lite logo painted with grape leaf watercolor pigment.
Osage wood dye bath.
Linen dyed with avocado waste drying on the clothesline.
Dyeing linen with avocado waste.
Avocado pits and skins collected for dyeing.
Avocado waste dye bath.
Eco-printing on silk with sunflower petals.
Silk ribbon bundle dyed with wild violets.
Frayed edge linen napkin dyed with osage wood and secured with silk ribbon.
Lake pigment made from foraged black walnuts.
Hibiscus dye bath with silk.
Cotton loungewear naturally dyed.
Indigo bath hands.
Swatch tests with foraged spruce cones and alder cones from Astoria, OR.
Watercolor practice using homemade red cabbage pigment.
Baby quilt made with naturally dyed cotton.