From carefully calibrated wool samples to slow stitching with local makers, this residency held both structure and openness, color, process, and the kind of connection you can’t really plan.

Sometimes those folding tables just sit (well, stand) too low for comfort, when you are dyeing, ecoprinting, or when you are setting up a market stall. Within minutes of working on a regular hight table, I develop nasty lower back pain that is very hard to get rid of. So I bought  bed risers, but [...]

Reflections on Gutau’s Blaudruck-Fest, always the first Sunday in May On the first Sunday in May the small Mühlviertel village of Gutau (Upper Austria) wakes up feeling blue. Market stalls spill out from the main square, block-printed table linens flutter on washing lines, and the smell of a fresh indigo vat drifts from the old [...]

Workshops should be spaces of creativity, learning, and respect—places where we can focus fully on the art of natural dyeing and printing without distractions. That’s why I now have clear terms and conditions in place, as well as a health waiver, to protect both my participants and myself. These are not just formalities; they ensure [...]

Today marks exactly two months since the ‘black Shabbat’ in Israel. That day I woke up disoriented at 6.30 to sirens and explosions, and life has not been the same since. In hindsight, I can recognize I am severely traumatized, as we all are. What I did not realize is what big a toll it [...]

I love an organized space. I love things to be neat and where it should be, but the moment I get creative, the mess takes over and I know I am not alone. Especially eco printing with a million leaves, mordant buckets and barriers flying around! So I asked my friend Rebekah Saltzman to join [...]

My heart is filled with joy seeing all the jars people have set up after the slow dye post. We should never give up creating something beautiful in these weird and unsettling times. Wishing everyone good health! (If you don’t see your jar, send a picture to my mail (in the footer) and I will [...]