Kindly donated by Ms. Kaori Yamashita

A three-hour workshop with plant-dye master Kaori Yamashita!

Take a plant-dyeing journey with up to four of your friends. You’ll take home your very own hand-dyed accessories (silks and scarves – and you may also bring your own item to dye).

For thousands of years, people have created vibrant colors from natural plant materials. Dyes can be extracted from roots, foliage, nuts, berries and flowers. Natural dyes have many different color pigments that cannot be reproduced by synthetic dyes.

The complex colors produced by natural dyes have a diversity of rich hues and shades that work in harmony with each other. Color theory confirms that colors evoke a physiological response, and the reaction to natural colors is both calming and alluring. Colors rich in brilliance, yet easy on the eye.

This is an invitation to take pleasure in the “slow craft” of color that connects us to nature and reminds us of tradition, craftsmanship and respect for the environment.