Video: Growing Natural Dyes at Brooklyn’s Textile Arts Center

Photographer Hanly Banks
August 08, 2011

We headed over to the Textile Arts Center in Gowanus, Brooklyn to check out their workspace and learn a little bit more about what they do. Studio manager Isa Rodrigues talked to us about the TAC's mission statement, and told a bit more about their natural dying initiative, called Sewing Seeds. We learned that Japanese indigo actually comes from a fully green plant commonly known as Dyer's Knotweed, and that they've got a brand new artist-in-residence program.

Video: Growing Natural Dyes at Brooklyn’s Textile Arts Center