Twining and Coiling at the NYS Sheep and Wool Festival
A sample of baskets made at my 2015 NYS Sheep and Wool Festival workshops. Coiling with Cattails, Grasses, and Daylily Leaves and Twining with Nature
Plant Dye Recipe and Tutorial: How to Make a Jewelweed Dye
How to make a plant dye with jewelweed in an easy to follow natural dye tutorial.
The Healing Colors of Plant Dyes
No matter where you live in the world we are all blessed with an abundance of local, beautiful, and vibrant dye plants. Whether they are growing wild or cultivated in gardens even the casual natural dyer knows that there are…
Harvesting White Ash Inner Bark for Basketry
Adventures in Bark Basketry After learning how to use bark in basketry during my internship in Asheville this winter my big project for this year became incorporating bark into my repertoire of natural materials. Although I processed already harvested bark and learned…
Baskets Galore! A Gallery of Natural Baskets from my 2015 Internship with Matt Tommey
Like the title indicates this is a sample of some of my favorite baskets that I made during three months this winter while I lived in Asheville, NC and interned with artist Matt Tommey in his River Arts District studio…
Weaving Baskets in the Land of the Pine
Since graduating from college with my BFA I've been looking for ways to continue my education in the fields that I love the most--- natural dyes, basketry, and working with natural, wild crafted materials to make fine art. Well, for…
Experiments with Nettle Dye, Take Two
Last year I posted a recipe for making dye with Stinging Nettles. to check out that post click here. The dye bath from last year turned out to be a lovely, yet light color. I had harvested in the late spring once the nettles…
Processing Basswood Bark for Making Cordage and Baskets
Processing Basswood Bark for Making Cordage and Baskets Having a boyfriend who makes his living as a tree climber definitely has it's perks. Dave co-owns a small business that focuses on permaculture and conscientious tree care called Back to the…
Indigo Fever: Japanese Indigo Dye Photos from Summer 2013
As I prepare for the new growing seasons, sow my natural dye seeds and research recipes it seems like the perfect time to share photos from my experiments with Japanese Indigo from last summer. It was my first time growing…
Celebrate Stinging Nettles: A Recipe for Nettle Dye!
In honor of this year's first annual Nettle Fest, being held at Lifebridge Foundation in Rosendale, NY this upcoming Saturday May 11th, I spent yesterday enjoying the beautiful sunny weather and dyeing yarn with freshly harvested stinging nettles. Nettle Fest…