my etsy shop now has hand felted merino naturally dyed baby booties in various colors (above, indigo) and hand felted naturally dyed iphone...

last week i was in chicago... for the renegade craft fair (as seen advertised on this blue line train!) felt cafe shared a booth with my de...

my first batch of indigo-dyed yarn. half of the yarn was heathery jacob to start with, and the other half was white merino, both of which i ...

one the last places i managed to visit before i left japan back in march was the miho museum . it was an interesting building in an amazing ...

as i am packing up my belongings, winter is definitely over. the plum trees have been blooming for a few weeks now, and then the peach trees...

last month i went to another natural wool class at my favorite wool store in kyoto. we dyed wool with gobaishi, a japanese gall that is crea...

this is the view of ohara kobo , a plant dye workshop in ohara , which is a small town an hour north of kyoto . i was really excited to try...

this is the japanese indigo plant, or polygonum. in japanese, it's called tadeai. ai is indigo as in 'aizome' means indigo dyein...

my spinning and dyeing class last week was great! i love my wool store, and it was very cool to take a class there, in the same space they u...

i'm been catching up since i returned from indonesia . here is a woman demonstrating traditional handmade javanese batik. tomorrow is ...

the people who organize the handmade market at chion-ji temple that i've blogged about before, also are involved with another handmade m...