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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Kantha Embroidery

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While in Delhi, earlier this year, we managed to meet up with our friends Khama and Mondal, Kantha style embroiderers from the Shantiniketan...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Colors in White

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How strange it is that a week that brought us our first madder dye bath, so full of colors, ideas and possibilities, was enveloped by two re...
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Monday, February 7, 2011

The Year of the White Rabbit

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Maybe it is because of the year of the rabbit, maybe it is the constant cold, but here is my second posting within a matter of days on angor...
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Just for Fun.....

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The weather is finally a bit warmer. This means that we started mordanting our yarns for this spring's knits and weaves. We also took ...
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Angora

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One of most beautiful things about spending time in Asia is the immediate contact that one establishes with the raw materials. Silk in Assam...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Manali - Our Base in India

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When we arrived the city and its mountains were covered with a blanket of snow; everything, except for the roads where ice prevailed, was w...
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Dominique and I became involved with natural fibers about 5 years ago during one of our stays in India. At first disappointed with the quality of products we found in the markets we decided to track them back to their sources and it is there in the remote villages and valleys of the subcontinent, and the back alleys of its towns that we discovered the beauty of natural materials and the wealth of traditional techniques. Today we spend our time between our spinning and weaving studio in Himachal Pradesh and our home in Arizona, where our son Alex handles customer relations and shipping. Presently most of our energy is focused on hand-spinning, yarn design, exploration and experimentation with natural dyes, study, incorporation and transformation of tribal and traditional styles, techniques and patterns with the intention of their graceful continuation and transformation into a vibrant future, with the further and final hope of bringing them into the hands of lovers of beauty, quality and purity worldwide.
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