Indigo and Block Printing Workshop at HSLU
From June 4th to 6th we had the chance to participate in an Indigo dyeing and block printing workshop at Hochschule Luzern.
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Review: 2nd International Symposium on Hallstatt-Textiles
From March 21 to 23 we attended the 2nd International Symposium on Hallstatt-Textiles: 3000 Years of Colour – from Tradition to Art and Innovation, that took place at the Natural (…)
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Coming Home – Vienna Wool Café «Laniato»
It’s like entering a light-flooded living room. Immediately you feel safe and home, especially after the warm welcome by Ms Topsy Thun-Hohenstein. You’re offered a seat at the big wooden (…)
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Knitting Circle at Bourbaki
One Monday per month café Bourbaki guests might witness a small group of women indulging in an old tradition: knitting. Yet, the three women aren’t old, in fact they are (…)
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Colour Fastness Test
This test consists on spooling-up the dyed threads around a piece of cardboard and covering part of them while exposing the other part to sunlight.
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Friends with the Alpine Cashmere Association
Last Saturday we were invited to join the meeting of the Swiss Alpine Cashmere Association in Zürich: A group of about twelve highly ambitious and adventurous people who love the (…)
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Dyeing gardens: HSLU building rooftop and courtyard
On Monday January 9 we visited the HSLU Soziale Arbeit building to check its rooftop and the possibility of building a dyeing garden in the heights.
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Wool Dyeing
By the end of December we defined a palette of six colours bearing in mind the availability of plant material. We chose: – Acer (Acer palmatum) Leaves – Blackberry (Rubus (…)
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Impression of a Potential Final Product
Last weekend we received a small wool spooling machine, hand-operated. Of course we (and mostly Juan) couldn’t stop using it and spooled yarns forwards and backwards. Our latest sample, dyed (…)
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Growing Madder
A few days ago we sowed five madder (Rubia tinctorum) seeds. Four of them obviously feel very comfortable with their temporary home: simple cottage cheese and honey buckets with holes (…)
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