Thursday, June 17, 2010

Embroidery Find of the Week: Hand-Dyed Floss!



Check out this amazing hand-dyed embroidery floss

The seller, barefootshepherdess, lives in Japan and uses natural plant dyes... Amazing! I just ordered some today, so I will post my own photo when it arrives.

Here are just a few of her natural dye ingredients... indigo homegrown in the hills of Japan, hand-harvested, and hand-dried... mugwort ("yomogi") collected from her neighborhood... sakura (cherry blossom) leaves collected with her son...

Japan is definitely on my "to visit" list, so I especially love the idea of plants from Japan being used in these dyes!




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