Native and Non-native Dyes
The Best and the Brightest (Natural Dyes, That Is)
Mesa, AZ It’s April and the thermometer in the Valley of the Sun is in the 90 degree range. It’s indigo weather! Add some cochineal bugs, munjeet (a type of madder) and osage orange sawdust and you’ve got a rainbow in the making. Cochineal and indigo color some of the yarns used by Navajo…
Read MoreIn Window Rock: Trying Our Hand at Natural Dyes
Window Rock, AZ Let me get you caught up on the activities of some of our recent classes in Window Rock. I was forced to abandon daily entries during the classes because there were continuing connectivity issues both with the hotel broadband and with the broadband service that I have on my laptop. Being forced…
Read MoreThe Elusive Wild Carrot
Window Rock, AZ How can it be Wednesday night? We’ve been busy going through our itinerary for this week’s class and I realized I haven’t had time to write this week. Monday, we went wild carrot hunting with Rose Dedman. Wild carrot, also called dock root or canyaigre, has the Latin name rumex hymenosepalus. It…
Read MoreDyeing for Information: Support A New Printing of Wild Colour by Jenny Dean
Support efforts to reprint Wild Colour by Jenny Dean.
Read More2009 Heard Museum Guild Indian Market: D.Y. Begay and Berdina Charley
D.Y. Begay’s sisters, Berdina and Berdine are getting serious about their weaving and brought some of their work to this year’s Indian Market. Berdina’s work, seen above in the two pieces in the left of the picture has strong graphic impact and a contemporary focus. Every time I look at the pictures, I find that…
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