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Natural Bundle Dyeing with Slowstitch Studio

Our Natural Bundle Dye Kits have arrived! We're super excited to be launching these, especially with all the social distancing and isolation going ...

Silk painting with natural dye extracts - Stick-Lac (Kerria lacca)

Let’s talk about lac (ครั่ง)! Today we’re going to go over the steps we take at our studio when using raw stick-lac (Kerria lacca) straight from...

Stencil dyeing

From all the new designs that we worked on with C JEAN for our collaboration there is one pattern in particular from the collection that we are esp...

Design collaboration - The Blossoming Energy and Movement in the Moment

Back in March this year we were invited by TCDC (Thailand Creative & Design Center) to join a collaborative project with a Taiwanese fashion...

Indigo & coffee shibori

Ann’s elder brother runs a café in Bangkok and has been coming by to drop off batches of old coffee beans for our use in natural dyeing. He is quit...

First foray into organic lake pigments

There has been a lot of work done this past month in preparation for the annual Chiang Mai NAP fair in December. Truth be told, we aren’t fully sur...

Planting indigo seeds at our new Chiang Mai studio

Up until now all of our work was being done out of a spare kitchen and a single indigo vat in the back garden of Ann’s mother’s house in Bangkok. T...

Explorations in coffee and indigo over-dyeing

Indigo can impart some pretty stunning shades on cloth but after working with it for over a year it can feel a little tiring having to look at blue...

Dyeing with purple plants (Bauhinia, Amaranth and Red Cabbage)

There is a Bauhinia tree with beautiful purple flowers growing in the front yard of my house and everyday there are plenty of fallen petals on the ...

Natural dyeing with onion skins, mango leaves, pomegranate skins and black beans

Before I went to Japan in 2013 and had the introductory experience of indigo dyeing and shibori, my works were often very colorful and vivacious so...