Almost 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.