Below are the colors we created at the Columbia Greenmarket on September 9th. We used mums and kale from Stannard Farm, Washington County, NY, and celery from Acevedo Farm in Orange County, NY. Join us Saturday Sept 29th at the Brooklyn Borough Hall greenmarket. We will there from 10am-3pm creating dyes!
Many thanks to everyone who helped Textile Lab felt together two amazing textiles to give to the farmers at Garden Of Eve and Norwich Meadows Farm. The farms bartered food in exchange for handcrafted textiles at the Unsold Supper Event on Saturday. The feast was incredible… it was an amazing end to a beautiful day at the market!
Join Textile Lab tomorrow Saturday September 15th from 4-6 with our friends from Our Goods to engage, create and feast at the “Unsold Supper” Event. We will be felting gifts to give to the farmers using local, naturally dyed fiber!
Please see our revised Greenmarket schedule below for September, October and November. Textile Lab will be visiting Brooklyn Borough Hall Greenmarket on September 29th.
September 15th– Union Square/ Unsold Supper Event
Sept 29th– Brooklyn Borough Hall
October 20th– Tribeca
October 28th– 79th Street
November 3rd– Tucker Square
November 18th– Carroll Gardens
photo, top: Laura Sansone
photo, bottom: E. T. Jones
We made dyes last week at the Tompkins Square Market with sage and radish tops from Acevedo Farm, Pine Island, NY. Below are the colors and pictures from the market. Please join us this Saturday 9/15 [UPDATED: at the Union Square Greenmarket]. We will be there from 3pm-6pm creating dyes and spinning local, naturally dyed fiber!
Sage
Radish Top
Radish Top
At the Greenpoint Greenmarket we created dyes with rosemary and cilantro from Osczepinski Farm, Goshen, NY. Farmer Joe from Healthway Farms gave us some red cabbage to make dye with! Here is the color palette:
Below are pictures from our visit:
We had a successful visit to the Greenmarket at the Fort Greene Park last Saturday. We made dye with marigolds from Rexcroft Farms in Athens NY, carrot tops from Conuco Farm in New Paltz NY and mint from J Glebocki Farms LLC.
We also met many people from the Fort Greene neighborhood. There were many questions about the natural dye process, and inquiries about where to buy the gorgeous local fiber we had with us. Check out the pictures below. Don’t forget to join us this coming Saturday August 25th at the McCarren Park Greenmarket. Textile Lab will be there from 10am-3pm.
The community at Inwood includes many people who are interested in sustainability and the environment. Many visitors stopped by Textile Lab to learn about natural dyes. We created dyes with sunflowers and eucalyptus from J Glebocki Farms, Orange County NY.
Mariko Hashimoto visited the lab. Mariko is a licensed Aromatherapist and Esthetician who lives in Inwood where she practices her aromatherapy and creates scents from plants: maliliko.com
We were stationed next to the stand of Hudson Valley Duck farm, where Ruby, who works the stand, offered fiber information to visitors. Ruby is a long time resident of Inwood and a fiber fanatic!
Join us this saturday 8/18 at the Fort Greene Park Greenmarket in Brooklyn. We will be there from 10am-4pm with yarns dyed with sunflower and eucalyptus!
Mariko, Ruby and Laura talking about the color and aroma of plants
Textile Lab will be visiting the GrowNYC Greenmarkets starting Saturday August 11th! We will be at the Inwood market from 10am-3pm harvesting plants and flowers to make dyes and spinning local wool. Check out our schedule to see when the lab will be at your neighborhood Greenmarket!
Textile Lab Greenmarket Schedule August-‐November 2012
August 11th-Inwood
August 18th-‐Fort Greene Park
August 25th-‐Greenpoint McCarren Park
Sept 2nd-‐ Tomkins Square Park
Sept 9th– Columbia
September 15th-‐Brooklyn Borough Hall
Sept 29th-‐Union Square
October 6th-‐Tribeca
October 13th--Grand Army Plaza
October 20th-‐Socrates Sculpture Park
October 28th-‐79th Street
November 3rd-‐Tucker Square
November 18th-‐Caroll Gardens
Below are pictures of the GrowNYC Loop De Loop Recycling Event at the Union Square Pavilion. Textile Lab dyed market bags made from reclaimed t shirts that were made on site by the Textile Arts Center and greenmarket shoppers!
Join Textile lab this Saturday 10/15 at the Union Square pavilion for the Loop De Loop Recycling event! We will be there from 11am-3pm dyeing T-shirt shopping bags with flowers and plants collected from the greenmarket.
The lab paid another visit to the Williamsburg and Greenpoint Greenmarkets on Saturday. We made dyes with fennel, cilantro and onion skins from Garden of Eve.
The Textile Lab visited the New Green City event sponsored by GrowNYC Union Square. We parked next to the City Atlas crew, and made dyes with eucalyptus and cabbage from the greenmarket. We met Johanna from Herbal Garden of East NY. See her pictured below sporting her hand knitted coat and hat!
The lab will be at two locations this Saturday 10/8. We will be at the Greenpoint market in Mc Carren Park from 10am-2pm, and then we will be going to Smorgasburg on the Williamsburg waterfront from 3-5. Come see us create natural dyes, and spin! We will have yarn and products for sale.
A trip to the greenmarket at Socrates Sculpture Park is a great way to spend a Saturday…nature, art and fresh local produce. We took advantage of the vegetable and flower offerings from J. Glebocki and Lucky Dog Farms. Dyes were made from sunflower, zinnia, fennel and onion skins!
Join us on Saturday 10/1 from 10am-4pm. We will be at the Socrates Greenmarket creating dyes! Come see our dyed yarn!
Check out the article written on Inhabitat about the Textile Lab Projects:
Below are pictures of Textile Lab with Parsons students at Union Square last Monday:
Making dyes
Houria visited our lab and showed us how she learned to spin and card in her homeland of Algeria
A visitor named Tasmi demonstrated Tibetan spinning and made us a drawing of a traditional Tibetan spindle
Parsons student Ariel Patterson explains our project to some visitors who are hearing impaired through sign language
Composting the plant material that we used to make the dyes
We showed visitors how to spin
Below are pictures of the collaborative textile that we worked on at the Dumbo Arts Festival. It is a felted construction made from local wool and reclaimed textiles.
See the Textile Lab at the Dumbo Arts Festival this Saturday 9/24 from 2-5 pm. We will be in the Tobacco Warehouse on Water St working on a giant collaborative felted textile! The textile is made from local, naturally dyed wool, and reclaimed textiles.
