Three cones of yarn standing in a row — indigo blue, madder orange and marigold yellow.

Colour, shaped by nature.

Natural dyeing creates colour through a relationship between material, plant, process and time.

Natural dyes

Colour is a material decision.

A natural dye is not a finish applied to a garment. It is a material meeting another material under particular conditions — a plant, a fibre, water, time — and the colour that results carries the record of that meeting.

Dye library

The dyes we work with

Each dye is documented as it is confirmed in production: its source, the colour it gives, the process it asks for and the way it behaves on different fibres.

A skein of indigo-dyed yarn coiled in a shallow terracotta basin, seen from above.

Indigo

Madder-dyed skeins in rust and orange hang from a drying rack in a courtyard.

Madder

Yarn wound along a wooden rod, running from marigold yellow into madder rust.

Marigold

A bound hank of indigo yarn laid over undyed cotton on a metal stool.

Dye and fibre

The same dye reads differently on different fibres. Preparation, temperature and time all move the result, which is why colour here is described by its process rather than by a single reference value.