Spring is here and Natural Dye Revive is open.🌱
This is our first seasonal, community natural dye service in collaboration with @bushwoodtailorsopportunityshop in downtown New Bedford. Bring us your loved garments and we will revitalize them with Myrobalan, a healing plant dye we’re calling Spring Harvest.
Warm yellow. Earthy gold. A quiet transformation service that results in unique tones depending on your specific items.
Drop off at the OPP SHOP now between April 11th. Natural fibers only (cotton, linen, silk, hemp). Choose an organic solid or tie-dye. Pick up ready by May 11th.
Link in bio to learn more and submit your garment.🌍♻️
Final(ish) steps of locally dyeing these vintage @levis with black walnuts collected off the sidewalk on Kempton Street, New Bedford. The city is a garden.
Not captured for context: 2 days of simmering, slowly extracting color, and letting the garment soak on and off low heat. Time of course, is the most valuable ingredient and privilege.
#naturaldyes #naturaldyeing #fallingofftrees #nbma #naturaldye #colorasmemory #newbedford #handdyed #plantcolor #blackwalnut #capsulewardrobe
I was recently asked why I dye things, and here’s my answer:
I dye things because I don’t know how not to.
When I walk outside, I see plants and I immediately wonder what color they would give. When I thrift and find a beautiful garment with some imperfections, I think “this could be brought back to life.” The world rearranged itself for me the moment I put my hands in a dye pot for the first time. I haven’t seen it the same way since.
And I don’t want to.
First slide and fourth slide photographed by: @__rasasvada
When the outside noise tells you to speed up, it’s okay to rebel and slow down.
Garden to garment.
Color as memory and connection to place, plants, and the privilege of being.
From garden to garment.
Kate @_kate_ricketson thrifted a vintage dress for a wedding and we dyed the slip with marigolds grown in our New Bedford garden + weld sourced from @botanicalcolors
This is what slow color looks like.
Have something that deserves a second life?
DM to learn more or book a custom dyeing service.
#naturaldyes #thrift #wedding #garden #newbedford
Bringing the practice of an organic indigo vat to 8th graders @nativitynewbedford 🌀
The boys experienced the slow practice of successfully dyeing their own t-shirts and displayed immense patience and respect along the way. Many hands were inside the vat, and we were able to complete the project during an art block. 🙏🏽
Big thanks to @hileezy@guzmanaart@linguicaking for making it all happen.
✨More indigo in city schools✨
First slide by @raaashl
Other slides from my basement studio post workshop and during vinegar/wash session.
Dressing in layers of thrift and natural dyes: taking my kids bowling edition…so comfort is a must when you’re trying to kick their little butts.
Denim dyed in myrobalan
Cotton bandana dyed with marigolds
Recycled cotton tote bag dyed with flowers
@fallingofftrees
Everything else is @savers_thrift from the tee to the bootsđź’«
Fresh cut from my sis @kasieschair 🔥
you’re not bored you just desire to play with flowers.
results from last night’s workshop Petals to Pigment 🌸@artmuseumnb
Naturally dyeing with left over valentines blooms and pigments was such a lovely way to spend a Friday evening. If you are a space or venue who would like to host a beautiful evening such as this, please DM me.
#naturaldyes #fallingofftrees #naturaldyeing #naturaldye #nbma
Flowers for your table.
Custom dyed cotton dinner set using dried flowers from my 2025 garden, food scraps, and pigments from the earth.
Hosting your loved ones with home cooked food, and sitting around a table that feels like a garden is possible. DM if this speaks to you🧡🌸
Or email: [email protected] if you’d like to work together
Flowers for your wardrobe.
Naturally dyed linen top for @naia.redesign
Logwood, roses, marigold, onion skin, cosmo, and time
Your clothes deserve another life after stains. Send them to us, if it feels aligned. 🌼
