Griffin Dyeworks – Ancient. Medieval. Modern. Handmade.

Griffin Dyeworks is a non-profit corporation dedicated to teaching historical textile arts skills and techniques, providing affordable space for educational workshops, and redistributing donated sewing and art supplies to the community.

What does this mean?

This means you can support our organization and charitable mission by SHOPPING our natural dyes, supplies, and handmade fiber arts tools.

We are available to teach WORKSHOPS in a variety of textile arts and natural dyeing, for parties, guilds, classes, employees, or yourself!

We will be hosting Fiber Frolics and Retreats each year!

Want to be involved? Please Join Our Facebook Group, follow us on social media (see right column), or sign up for our email newsletter!

griffindyeworks

Los Angeles-based non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting historical textile arts. Have dyepots, will travel!

Join Theresa from @griffindyeworks and Vanè of @b

Join Theresa from @griffindyeworks and Vanè of @behindthebeet at @cufarm Saturday, Sept 16 for The Art of Happy Accidents! I’ll be talking natural dyes and everyone will get to dye a few items and experience the magic of happy accidents! Link in bio to sign up.
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#dyeworkshop #naturaldyes #panoramacity #kitchendyes #trashrich #reducereuserecycle #happyaccidents

Schedule’s up for the Frolic Sept 23! If you wan

Schedule’s up for the Frolic Sept 23! If you want to register for classes, you can do so via the link in bio or message me and I’ll send the signup form.

The event is now pay what you can + materials fees to reimburse teachers. Class fees and descriptions are also in the link in bio!

#losangeles #weaving #naturaldyes #icedye #lucet #silkpainting #yarndyeing #embroidery

I built a tabletop warp weight loom! And it works,

I built a tabletop warp weight loom! And it works, mostly. I was challenged by the uneven ground we were on - my weights weren’t hanging at the correct angle to easily pass the shuttle through the shed. Keeping the warp evenly spaced, or spaced at all, was basically impossible. And lastly, my weights were not heavy enough for me to be able to beat upwards - I had to pull the warp down as I did. A+ learning experience, I look forward to fixing these issues and trying again! Many thanks to Richard the Bowman for his assistance carving out the square holes and the small L shaped upper brackets.

I’m at the International Quilt Show in Long Beac

I’m at the International Quilt Show in Long Beach today! Not my usual craft, but I can appreciate the work that went into these. Tickets for a day are just $15 and well worth a few hours of your time.

Some BTS pics from my time with @behindthebeet tod

Some BTS pics from my time with @behindthebeet today! Stay tuned to see what we were up to.. :) #naturaldyes #consciousliving #ecoconscious #kitchenscraps #foraging

Tickets now available! We’re gathering teachers

Tickets now available! We’re gathering teachers and classes - if you’re interested in teaching, get in touch!

What are you interested in learning?

Had an AMAZING day at the @gettymuseum yesterday f

Had an AMAZING day at the @gettymuseum yesterday for their Family Festival: Medieval Play. Myself, Roberta, and Cat demonstrated spinning and weaving allll day long to hundreds of people as part of a group of living history participants.

Lots of guests remember seeing their mothers or grandmothers spinning yarn, which I always love to hear about. There was SO much going on all day, it was truly a unique event for us and for the Getty! We’ll be back July 9 if you want to experience the whole event with your family.

Trying out some instructions for making dye lakes,

Trying out some instructions for making dye lakes, or pigments. I haven’t done it in ages, so this is more of just testing the overall process to refamiliarize myself.

Left -mystery lichen that has been soaking for literally a decade (🤦🏽‍♀️), madder from powder, and madder from whole root pieces.

Next step after drying these pigments out and testing them will be trying to create different colored madder dyebaths (orange, purple, pure red) and creating lakes from those!

Hope you’re interested in blending your own batt

Hope you’re interested in blending your own batts and spinning at this year’s retreat! 👀👀

I fixed up this Ashford Traditional and it’ll be

I fixed up this Ashford Traditional and it’ll be for sale at WEFF tomorrow! Support Griffin Dyeworks’ mission to promote historical textile arts skills by shopping our booth!

I was going through my bags of roving and I found

I was going through my bags of roving and I found this set of naturally dyed roving samples! What do you think, if I started selling naturally dyed yarn and fiber, would it sell? (And yeah I’d filter out the dyestuff when dyeing for sales!) #naturaldyes #dyeworks #indigo #cochineal #osageorange #logwood

What would you call a group of inkle looms? A herd

What would you call a group of inkle looms? A herd? A warped set? These locally-made looms come in two sizes and will be exclusively available at @socalhandweavers’ WEFF event this Sunday!

March 18 was the first Frolic in a few years! It w

March 18 was the first Frolic in a few years! It was great to get back together to spin, weave and dye. Lots of great connections were made and new skills achieved. #losangeles #viewpark #naturaldyeing #dyeworkshop #aciddyeing #weaving #tabletweaving #handspinning #greatwheelspinning

I love dye books. This is from “California Dye P

I love dye books. This is from “California Dye Plants” by Marilyn Wilkins pub 1976.

Exclusive shot of the rare “natural dye drying b

Exclusive shot of the rare “natural dye drying bush” in bloom on Catalina Island last year! 😆

Spring Frolic is Back in LA

Spring Frolic is Back in LA

Registration is now open for our Spring Fiber Frol

Registration is now open for our Spring Fiber Frolic! $40 entry and free to low class fees for whichever classes you want. Find out more and sign up at the link in bio!

It’s true! We can do demos or full workshops in

It’s true! We can do demos or full workshops in washing wool, carding, spinning, plying, braiding, lucet, weaving, and natural dyes! I’ve taught kindergarteners through adults, in schools and zoos and gardens. Hosting a sheep shearing open house? Enhance the experience! Is your class learning about the Colonies or Pioneers? Bring the field trip to you! DM for more info.

Now booking workshops for Dec-Feb! Happy to go a

Now booking workshops for Dec-Feb!

Happy to go anywhere in the LA area and will consider offers further afield. Indigo workshops, general natural dyes, dyes of a particular time or place in history.. for kids, adults, guilds, employees, friends, birthdays.. DM for more info!

Final dye results! We used cochineal, madder, weld

Final dye results! We used cochineal, madder, weld, and indigo. The blue triangle hanging up alone in one picture was done with cyanotypes! #naturaldyes #dyeworkshop #cochineal #madder #indigo #weld #griffindyeworksretreat

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