Bagels, muffins, toast, sandwiches, croissants, pitas, pizza, rolls, baguettes, biscuits—the list goes on! There are so many types of breads and bread-adjacent delicacies, and we love them all.
With our new collection of table linens now available at the Penland Gallery just in time for feast season, we though we’d share a few favorite recipes. Below are two breads we make on repeat this time of year. Best served with loved ones and a naturally-dyed textile or two :)
Read MoreLac rounds out the richest, warmest end of our rainbow with its saturated burgundies, cheery magentas, and plummy purples. It’s blackberry-stained fingertips in August and mulled wine over the holidays, the unbelievably velvety centers of deep crimson dahlias. And, like the rest of our dyes, it’s a color that comes from the diverse crevices of the natural world—in this case, the scale insect Laccifer lacca.
Read MoreA mini collection of rosy-hued love notes to send to (yep!) your loved ones. Let’s spread the word!
Read MoreA fall-inspired, produce-heavy salad that can hold its own at the center of the table. Enjoy with crunchy bread or roast chicken, a couple good friends, and your favorite naturally dyed table linens, of course!
Read MoreAlmost anywhere we look in the living world, there is surprising color hidden inside the leaves and trunks of trees, the carapaces of insects, and the lichens and mushrooms sprouting from fallen logs. Everywhere, the potential for natural dye. And yet, when we designed our original Homebody Textiles collection, we chose only six dyes to use: indigo, weld, buckthorn, madder, cochineal, and pomegranate.
Read MoreNatural dyes are often more complex, more time intensive, more unpredictable, and more expensive than their synthetic counterparts. So why have we chosen them as the material at the heart of our work?
The answers all lead back to connection—to our living world, to a centuries-old tradition of craft, and to the values at the heart of our studio.
