Annette • Natural dyer, ecoprinter, gardener, forager

@tinctoriumstudio

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🇵🇹👇 Last Friday (the 13th) I turned 30, and it felt like a good moment to reintroduce myself. Of course, after that, it took me a while to figure out how I wanted to do it and to process the idea of posting a cute “about me” while you-know-who (hint – starts with U and I) launch yet another war based on lies and xenophobia. So here are a few things about me that might help explain why Tinctorium Studio is the way it is. 4 Favorite dye plants: 🌿Coreopsis, ruiva, persicaria tinctoria, & eucalyptus ironbark. 3 favorite trees: 🌳 Oak, Schinus molle, and mature eucalyptus outside of monoculture. 3 things I’m really good at: 🌈 Learning new things. By reading, watching, researching, taking a class. By any means learning is fun. 🌈 I always have tons of ideas and projects I want to start. 🌈 I’m great at multitasking and do bestwith several projects going at the same time. 3 things that bring me immense joy: 🌱 Watching seeds germinate and turn into plants or trees. 🌱 The weird sounds my dog makes and my boyfriend’s farts that always make me laugh. 🌱 Going on hikes without a clear route. 4 biggest challenges: ❄️ Finishing projects and the usual struggles of a neurodivergent brain ❄️ Replying to messages and emails. I can’t explain why, but it’s a huge mental block and I never know what to write ❄️ The cognitive dissonance required to live in such an interconnected world with such inequality and double standards. ❄️ ‘Selling’ and doing the business side of things ❄️ Receiving & responding to compliments 3 books that deeply influenced me: 📚 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 📚 Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 📚 Ishmael by Daniel Quinn My favorite thing about natural dyeing: 🪴 The way it allows me to interact with plants. Gardening, harvesting, observing, testing, being amazed. And how it feels so magical to extract colors that are so different from what you see. The thing I like least about natural dyeing: 🧫 The violent, colonial, unsustainable history of the pursuit of bright colors. All the misinformation about the technique online. And the amount of dishes I have to wash. Feel free to put questions in the comments 💚
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10 months ago
Venha conhecer a @tinctoriumstudio dia 23 de Maio em mais uma edição do Mercado na Praça, das 10h-19h!! Ficamos à sua espera 🫶🏻 📍Estufa Fria de Lisboa 🌿 ⏰ 10h-19h 🎟️ Entrada Gratuita Apoio: Câmara Municipal de Lisboa e Estufa Fria de Lisboa #mercadoartesanato #mercadolisboa #lisbon #artesanato
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(🇵🇹👇) In my last post, I reflected a little bit about the lessons from @herbfest_portugal and the importance of developing a relationship with specific plants. In eco printing, I think this gets materialized through the years of practice in managing our perception of the composition with the fresh leaves sitting on the fabric vs the final print when the leaf gets pulled off. No mordant recipe or workshop will be able to teach that - only time and experience. Sometimes the biggest, darkest leaves leave the lightest prints. Sometimes it’s the whispy, thin leaf that makes the strongest. A little bit like with glazes in ceramics, you can make exhaustive samples of how each plant will print for reference. Or over the years and practice you will start to know how they print. I’ve left some photos here of what the prints look like after cooking followed by a photo of the exact same fabric on my studio table with the composition laid out. the visual result between the two is quite different and wrapping my head around how it will look after cooking has taken years. Still, unexpected results are quite common around here!
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6 days ago
Back from a weekend at @herbfest_portugal surrounded by inspiring witches, a diversity of plants growing in @freixodomeio , and passionate humans. One of my key takeaways was this reoccurring theme of developing relationships with the plants. From all the teacher’s whose talks I attended - they often repeated the idea that the extraction technique, dosage, and protocol is much less important than developing your relationship with the plants. Choose a few, observe them deeply, study their interactions, and take your time. From medicine making, food preparation, to natural dyeing there is a recipe to help guide you - but the true magic/creation happens when it comes from a place of familiarity not a precise action of following instructions. Now back home I feel this renewed energy to interact with the plants around me for more than dyeing - making mulberry syrup, drying rose petals for tea, taking care of the garden. Engaging in these varied rituals that remind me that the earth is a place of abundance and everything is connected. 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹 De volta de um fim de semana no @herbfest_portugal rodeado de bruxas inspiradoras, uma diversidade de plantas no @freixodomeio e humanos apaixonados. Uma das minhas principais conclusões foi o tema recorrente do desenvolvimento de relacionamentos com as plantas. De todas as palestras que participei - repetiram a ideia de que a técnica de extração, dosagem e protocolo são muito menos importantes do que desenvolver seu relacionamento com as plantas. Escolhe algumas espécies, observe-os profundamente, estude suas interações e não tenha pressa. Desde a fabricação de remédios, preparação de alimentos até o tingimento natural, há uma receita para ajudar a orientá-lo - mas a verdadeira magia/criação acontece quando se parte de um lugar de familiaridade e não de uma ação precisa de seguir instruções. Agora em casa sinto essa energia renovada de interagir com as plantas ao meu redor para mais do que tingir - tenho estado a fazer xarope de amoreira, secar pétalas de rosa para infusões, cuidar do jardim. Envolver-me nestes rituais variados que me lembram que a terra é um lugar de abundância e que tudo está conectado.
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12 days ago
Na manhã do último dia, o nosso corpo já conhece bem o lugar e os caminhos fazem-se quase sem pensar. Há quem regresse às plantas com outro olhar, mais íntimo. Há quem caminhe, quem observe, quem toque como se já não fosse só aprender, mas reconhecer. Tudo acontece num ritmo diferente, como se o festival começasse a recolher-se dentro de cada um e a integrar o que foi vivido. No Espaço Cozinha, cozinhar tornou-se ritual, com a Alice Cadina @hortalice , num encontro dos sabores se cruzam com a cultura de forma profunda. Com a Ana Carla Cabrita , as mãos entraram em diálogo com a matéria, num gesto antigo de entrançar a palma do Algarve, que liga o corpo ao território. A Dulce Mourato @mouratodulce trouxe a cosmética natural para o plano do fazer com ingredientes e texturas que ligam o cuidado do corpo àquilo que vem da terra. Mark Lieber @_growback_ levou-nos a explorar a pé, a sua incrível agrofloresta e as relações que sustentam os ecossistemas, enquanto a Anette Brinckerhoff @tinctoriumstudio guiava a criação de um herbário vivo, a partir da tinturaria com plantas do montado. Anne McIntyre @_annemcintyre fala-nos do seu jardim de Ártemis, numa viagem pela vida através das plantas. Rosemary Gladstar @rosemarygladstar , levou-nos às histórias e receitas que a acompanharam ao longo da vida, numa partilha simples e inspiradora. O montado começa a preparar-se para se despedir. 🌿 📷 @noa.p.mendes
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13 days ago
(🇵🇹👇)Spring is here, which means the madder pinks are back! Spring sunshine, warm weather, and wild flowers captured on fabric. I see these pieces as showing the magic of the overlooked. Wild plants that get cut and sprayed with herbicides because they are not ‘Wanted’ or seen as annoying and a pest. Even Madder whose powerful colors are hidden below the soil in the roots but the foliage is scratchy and unspectacular. The pieces of the Spring collection are all about valuing and putting the spotlight on the plants that grow, bloom, and thrive through pure force of life. All they ask is that we don’t cover them with cement or spray them with poison. In exchange, the landscape bursts into life and has unlimited potential for food, medicine, and color. It’s not a secret, but you do need to get to know the plants, learn their personalities, preferences, and profiles. Before you know it the side of the road is a space of endless wonder to be explored and protected. —— Vintage silk naturally dyed with Rubia tinctorum grown for 4 years in my garden and eco printed with spring “weeds” - feoniculum vulgare, torilis arvensis, and bidens aurea - and wildflowers - glebionis, coleostephus, and anacyclus.
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1 month ago
Nothing here was made fast. Silk dress & socks by @tinctoriumstudio : dyed with local plants, rooted in the ecosystem around us. Handwoven bag by @catemybag : one artisan, one story, no mass production. Cap & pouch bag with large beeds by @u.b.atelier : crafted slowly using traditional techniques and reclaimed materials. Available on 11+12 April at @8marvila
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(🇵🇹👇) My love of natural dyeing comes from my love for plants and gardening. It was by studying permaculture that I even first discovered this magical color universe. So it makes sense that growing dye plants has become a huge part of my practice. In its fourth (FOURTH!!) year, the garden is finally taking the shape I envisioned. The soil is fluffier from the broadfork + lots of organic matter. I know where plants want to be planted and where they’ve struggles. Trees are growing and giving some much needed shade. Drip irrigation lines and a proper greenhouse make everything easier. In honor of putting over 110 plants in the ground yesterday, i wanted to share a story from the Winter newsletter: At a market last year, I was talking to a customer and mentioned that I grow all my own dye plants. He responded with something along the lines of, “Oh, cool, this way you don’t have to pay for the plants. They’re free.” I explained that actually, my time is one of the most valuable resources in my practice, and that growing my own dye plants is exponentially more expensive than buying them. My small regenerative garden will never be as efficient as large-scale production. We ended up having a really beautiful exchange. It was fascinating to see how we each approached the same idea from completely different perspectives. For me, the ritual of accompanying a plant’s cycle (from seed, to plant, and back to seed) will always be a priceless, magical part of my work. I grow dye plants that I wouldn’t otherwise have access to through foraging (either because they don’t grow naturally in Portugal or because harvesting them in the wild would be unsustainable) and it is a huge part of my work. Even though these plants only appear in the Summer Wear Tinctorium collection, I spend the entire year tending the garden with a great (and joyful) amount of effort. P.s. beautiful photos are from last September by @pics__pi
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1 month ago
(🇵🇹👇)It required all of my effort and concentration the last days, but the seasonal newsletter is now in your inbox. If you’re not subscribed, find the link in my stories and get on subscribing. I find instagram an exhausting and unreliable place to post news and events so I do two types of emails: one monthly email with the events and workshops happening that month (if you read until the end you get information about the dye plant of the month). And one seasonal newsletter that has a bit of everything from reflections, stories, tips, and other announcements (read until the end of this one to learn a secret about me). Do you get, read, like the newsletters? Let me know below!
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Nascida e criada entre a Costa Rica, Portugal, e os EUA, Annette cresceu rodeada de plantas e natureza. Esta sua obsessão por plantas e uma introdução inesperada ao tingimento natural na Tailândia em 2018, foi o início do caminho de Annette no mundo da tinturaria natural. Em 2019 mudou-se novamente para Portugal, aproveitando os tempos livres para procurar matéria tintureira nos parques, matos e florestas da zona. Após uma pandemia mundial que a forçou a encontrar paz nas plantas locais, fundou a Tinctorium Studio em 2020 - um atelier de tinturaria natural que pretende regenerar a conexão entre as pessoas e as plantas. No Herb Fest 2026, Annete vai-nos orientar na experimentação da impressão botânica com Herbário Tinctorium de Plantas do Freixo do Meio. @tinctoriumstudio EN Born and raised between Costa Rica, Portugal, and the USA, Annette grew up surrounded by plants and nature. This obsession with plants, coupled with an unexpected introduction to natural dyeing in Thailand in 2018, marked the beginning of Annette's journey into the world of natural dyeing. In 2019, she moved back to Portugal, using her free time to search for dyeing materials in the area's parks, thickets, and forests. After a global pandemic forced her to find peace in local plants, she founded Tinctorium Studio in 2020 – a natural dyeing studio that aims to regenerate the connection between people and plants. At Herb Fest 2026, Annette will guide us in exploring botanical printing using the Herbarium Tinctorium of Plants from Freixo do Meio.
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2 months ago
I’m finishing printing wool sweaters this week as winter is coming to an end…. Right in time for warmer Spring days 😆 Who says that wool is only for winter? Clearly they were never in Portugal after the sun sets and when the wind comes. How do you style wool throughout the year?
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2 months ago
February in review. So much happening for such a short month! A mix of finishing winter pieces, enjoying the sun, and teaching. 1- Frodo protecting my ‘winter plants’ samples. 2- Seeds germinating in the greenhouse. 3- Back to markets with @shop_amazonas 4- Workshop Impressão Botânica na @ficaoficinacriativa 5- Designing a new little banner to bring to markets so strangers passing can see a bit of the studio & process. 6- A commissioned skirt that got stained for @martsoliveira and fabrics for @crias_na_floresta 7- A full wool jacket that I eco printed with eucalyptus leaves and am totally obsessed with. It will be available as soon as I finish sewing on new buttons. 8- The results of February’s dye plant club exploring the potential of Eriobotrya japonica (Nespera/loquat) 9- Days off taking walks with Frodo. 10- Mat has been taking photos of the pieces and updating the webshop. Thank you, my love! 11 & 12- The results of the January dye plant club exploring oxalis pés-caprea. 13&14 - A beloved student and accomplished textile artist (Dulce) did an exhibition at 93 years young with some new eco printed fabrics. 15 - The results of the natural dyeing workshop at @ficaoficinacriativa
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2 months ago