The Alchemy of Color — Natural Dyes that Remember Why Natural Dyes? Color is a language older than ink. Natural dyes—drawn from plant, insect, and mineral—carry fragrance, season, and place into cloth. They don’t simply paint a surface; they bond with the fiber,...
Natural Fibers: Threads That Bind Us The First Thread Natural fibers turn small motions into lasting comfort. A single strand is fragile, but spun into thread it becomes strength—a line that connects earth to human, fragility to endurance, silence to story. Since...
Threads of the Past, Weaving Our Future Series: The Soul of Natural Fiber The First Language Between Earth and Us Beneath our feet, the earth has always offered threads—cotton that blooms like clouds under the sun, flax that whispers by the riverside, wool shorn...
Reviving American Flax Today A Return to the Field Though flax once faded from America’s fields, today it is returning—revived by artisans, farmers, and sustainability advocates who see in its fibers both heritage and hope. In the rolling hills of Vermont, the...
American Flax: Decline and Memory By the turn of the 19th century, American Flax entered its long twilight, overshadowed by the rapid ascent of cotton. The cotton gin, patented in 1793 by Eli Whitney, transformed the agricultural landscape, making cotton far easier...
Shaker Linen: Simplicity & Flax Faith Shaker Linen and the Roots of Simplicity When the Shakers—formally known as the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing—arrived in America in the late 18th century, Shaker Linen was born from fields of...
