Andreya
will be holding a 3 Day Paper Bowls Workshop at the
Mendocino
Art Center
Febuary 11-12-13 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm.
Valentines Day Weekend 2006
Please call the Mendocino Art Center at 707-937-5818
to register.
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I have always felt that global responsibility deep in my soul.
When Miriam
Rice taught me to dye with mushrooms in 1977, she reminded me
of this responsibility. To
be conscious of what we use and discard in our daily lives; including
dyes with which we color our clothes.
I have lived in Germany when the chemical
company Ciba Geigy accidentally spilled
thousands of gallons of red dye into “Father Rhein”
and made the toxicity very obvious by killing all the fish in
3 countries. The river never recovered,
and there are no living organisms in the
Rhein, except for some algae.
On the paradisian island of Bali,
where there was absolutely everything biodegradable, the
rivers are getting so toxic from dyes that people develop strange
skin problems when bathing in them.
My little contribution to turn this
toxicity around is NATURAL
DYES. Most of my clothes are biodegradable
and naturally dyed. When they are too old to wear I dig them into
the
soil,
back to where it all came from.
I want to invite you
to join me.
There are many natural dye teachers in the USA, some even
dye with mushrooms like me. Turkey Red
Journal is a great resource of information of teacher
and techniques, so is the world wide web.
