These fun post-and-dangle designs come in a vibrant, summertime green, complemented by a rosy copper link. Titanium posts and backings keep your ears happy, as does the nearly weightless maple. Finished with tung oil and shellac, you'll want to keep touching them all day.
Dimensions: 1.5" wide by 2.5" long
Petroleum free (except for a tiny dab of superglue)
Grass Triangular Post Drops
Weld is native to Central Asia and Europe, where it has been used as a lightfast yellow dye since ancient times. It plays well with others and serves as a terrific, bright, clear base for overdyeing with other colors to produce wild oranges and greens! Non-invasive and safe to grow - which I hope to do next season!
Indigo has such a complicated history. Botanically, it's a fascinating case of how the same dye compound can be found in different plants continents apart. Unfortunately, the patterns of exploitation around this remarkable dye are all too much the same. Because indigo so easily dyes cotton, its demand skyrocketed as plantation slavery and the industrialization of cotton mills made cotton fabric so cheap and abundant. As colonizers found new sources of indigoferin, they also found new ways to coerce indigenous peoples across the world into the complex extraction, fermentation, and dyeing processes. When synthetic dyes became widely available, families that had suffered such abuse under colonial rule understandably wanted nothing more to do with it. As interest in natural dyes has increased, so too has attention to fair trade and the enormous harm of previous indigo production. My dye sources work with communities to try to right the wrongs, educate artists and consumers, and support the reskilling and sustainable compensation of the communities that hold the knowledge of indigo dye.
