Kids In Love Collective
Kids In Love
Textile Arts Center Online Shop!
I am so excited for the Textile Arts Center online shop to be finally open! The herringbone and hand-woven suspenders by Visnja are beautiful. The canvas totes are all dyed with natural dyes and also screen printed with natural dyes like logwood and indigo. Everything was designed and produced in the TAC studios in Brooklyn and everyone has been working so hard on it, I think it looks awesome. The Manhattan store will be open this week, I’m bringing my camera during set-up so hopefully I’ll have some photos to show the new space.
Sow+Dye Kit – Combo below = my personal Xmas gift to myself . The Sewing Seeds Project began in early 2011 with with a mission to preserve the growing and use of natural dyes as well as provide resources for our community. To date, the project encompasses classes and workshops, a Living Library in our community garden, digital and physical resources, and coming in early 2012, a Natural Dyes CSA.
The Sow+Dye Kits are complete with all you need to begin growing natural dyes at home. Each combo kit contains 1 packets of seeds (indigo, lady’s bedstraw, OR correopsis), and information on how to grow the plant as well as use it for dyeing.
Best of all, all the proceeds from these are going towards center activities including sponsorship and scholarships for kids to take textile classes at the center. BEST. GIFT. EVER!
“Where Avant-Garde Design and Organic Hand Craft Collide”
3rd Ward and John Ruscher did a really nice write up of us: HANDMADE HOLIDAY GIFT IDEA #81 // Kids In Love Collective: Where Avant-Garde Design And Organic Hand Craft Collide. Thanks to 3rd Ward, Tom Tom Mag and Textile Arts Center for a great fair. It was fun but kind of exhausting. I’ll be a lot more prepared next time.
Modal Hair Bows
Pavla in the new modal tie-dye hair bow ($20) Thx Pavie <3
Stop by the 3rd Ward HandMade Holiday Craft Fair Sat. Dec 10, Kids In Love will be there selling all these pretty things plus special drumstick pouches with Tom Tom Mag. Whaaat! Yup, pretty excited.
Hand Ink & Dyed Modal Scarves
scarf front above and back below
These painted and dyed modal scarves are the results of working and experimenting with techniques explored in Shabd‘s tie-dye workshop as well as hand painting with dyes on my own.
Each scarf is hand cut from a modal bolt, pre-washed and then individually hand-dyed, painted and then draped for ink drip effects.
I specially chose modal as the material for the scarves even though it is a more expensive fabric because not only is modal made from natural celluose wood pulp fibers and therefore retains beautiful colors in all dyeing processes including indigo and procion dyeing, modal is extra soft and easy to care for. Feels like wrapping a warmer version of one’s favorite tee around the neck! $65, on sale NOVEMBER 21st.
