TEJIDA · DYES

Natural dyes

Color is born before the cloth.

TEJIDA dyes with plants grown or foraged: Japanese indigo, cochineal, madder, onion skins…

Each bath is unique, each colour unrepeatable.

Indigo

Indigo

Cochineal

Cochineal

(...), you must learn the making of the shades. When to sadden with the iron pot. How to bloom the colors. How to bleed.

— Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue