Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 02/12/2025I recently had 3 artworks on display as part of a group show entitled ‘InterWOVEN’. The exhibition referenced Linen heritage in a contemporary context. The pieces are distinctly different, but they all explore topics of deep ecology, mapping relationships and a deep grá, love, for the flax plant 🩵 010
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 27/11/2025Now that the ‘InterWOVEN’ exhibition has finished, here’s a walkthrough of one of the pieces I had on display. This is a very personal piece that I think of as a self-portrait of sorts. It will surely keep changing and evolving if and when it’s shown again ✨ youtu.be/x38jPf3RUtc?...youtu.beI'm an ecosystem made up of all the places and beings that have nourished meYouTube video by Talú 100
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 13/09/2025Let’s play a little game! 🎉 As you know, I’m doing a FREE call this Monday 15 September at 6:30pm Irish time to give you my best tips to identify dye plants in the wild and help you guess the shades they could make. In advance of this, I thought it would be fun to do a little guessing game! 🧵 111
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 13/09/2025Let’s play a little game! 🎉 As you know, I’m doing a FREE call this Monday 15 September at 6:30pm Irish time to give you my best tips to identify dye plants in the wild and help you guess the shades they could make. In advance of this, I thought it would be fun to do a little guessing game! 🧵 100
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 09/09/2025Ever wonder… 🤨 Is that dye plant? 🎨 What colour does it make? 🌺 Will this brightly-coloured flower dye my shirt that colour? 🍃 Why is it so hard to get green? I’ll be answering that+ more next Monday 15 Sept @ 6:30pm (Irish time) on Zoom! It’s FREE, just register guides.talu.earth/what-colour 001
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 04/09/2025Let’s look at some of the colours that are possible on textiles using #plantdyes! 🍃🌈✨ Start your #naturaldyeing journey with my online course ✨Finding Joy in Botanical Dyes✨, which starts 22 September. 🔗 talu.earth/learn-natura... 🎶: Funky by AlexGuz 000
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 26/07/2025Thanks for finding such excellent prizes! 💙 000
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 20/07/2025Just one week until we meet in @willowandlore.bsky.social to celebrate colour from nature with workshops, discussions, meditations, games & stories by the fire! 🎪🌈✨ Here’s a lil’ recap of last year’s festival, with videos by Rafa de Almeida. Have you got your tickets? festivalofcolour.co 🎟️ 000
Reposted by Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textilesImbibe Coffee Roasters @imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Amazon 2024 Turnover $637.9B Net Income $59.2B If they ran under our model they'd have a $6B bonus pool shared equally among workers. They'd give $15B to good causes. They'd still be left with an obscene $38.2B in profit. Life changing stuff. Instead they're going to lay people off for AI. 11311
Reposted by Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textilesMalú Colorín (she/her) @malucolorin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Join us for a weekend celebration of flax! 🌾🩵 🗓️ Sat 30 – Sun 31 Aug ( 📍 An Creagán & Mallon Linen, Tyrone 🚌 Subsidised transport to and from Dublin (with stops en route) & on-site accommodation available! 🥪 Meals included 🎟️ fibreshedireland.ie/the-flax-mei... ___________ #spéirghorm #spéirgorm 022
Reposted by Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textilesMalú Colorín (she/her) @malucolorin.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Thanks to Go Leor magazine for featuring me in their 2nd issue, alongside Esther O’Kelly and Judith Logan 🙌🏽✨ Go Leor is the latest magazine covering the arts, creativity and therapy throughout #Ireland. In this issue, you’ll find… (a thread 🧵) go-leor.co.uk —————- #spéirghorm #spéirgorm 221
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 05/07/2025Here’s some of what you can expect from the ✨Archipelago Festival of Colour✨ A thread 🧵 festivalofcolour.co _____ #spéirghorm #spéirgorm #naturaldye #naturalpigment #makeinkfestivalofcolour.coArchipelago Festival of ColourAn intimate festival dedicated entirely to natural dyes, pigments, and inks, honouring the Land that provides them. 110
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 04/07/2025Yesterday I visited @willowandlore.bsky.social, the lovely venue that will host the ✨Archipelago Festival of Colour✨ next 26-27 July. We sussed out the details of how we’ll set up the place for the weekend (and admired their new half acre of flax!). The excitement is building! 🎉 #spéirghorm 110
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 23/06/2025The 1st step in #naturaldyeing is “scouring” or washing the textiles to remove excess oils and waxes and allow the dye to penetrate inside the fibres. Learn this and every foundational step of the natural dye process in my online course ✨Finding Joy in Botanical Dyes✨ 👉🏽 talu.earth/learn-natura... 111
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 06/06/2025Here’s what you can expect at this year’s ✨Archipelago Festival of Colour!✨ 👇🏽 All-weekend and Sunday-only tickets are now available at festivalofcolour.co See you there? 🎪🌈✨ ___________ #spéirghorm #spéirgorm #naturaldyes #naturalpigment #makeink 021
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 06/06/2025Online course now open for registration! 📣 ✨ Finding Joy in Botanical Dyes✨ A beginner-friendly introduction to the captivating world of natural dyeing for textiles After a successful first run, this introductory online course returns this summer! 🌿🌈✨ talu.earth/learn-natura... ____ #naturaldyes 141
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 01/06/2025✨Early bird tickets!✨ ARCHIPELAGO FESTIVAL OF COLOUR A weekend of playful activities for crafters and families to explore botanical dyes, pigments & inks! 🗓️ 26 - 27 July 2025 📍Willow & Lore, Co. Antrim, North of Ireland 🎟️ festivalofcolour.co #spéirgorm #spéirghormfestivalofcolour.coArchipelago Festival of ColourAn intimate festival dedicated entirely to natural dyes, pigments, and inks, honouring the Land that provides them. 011
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 29/05/2025Here’s how I used plants to dye 10 cotton flags for the ✨Nature’s Symphony: Celebrating Organic Growth✨ Feature Garden at #bordbiabloom 🌸 Celebrating @president.ie’s dedication to organic food, sustainability & his Galway roots ⛵️ _______ 🎶 Mornings by Jeff Kaale #spéirgorm #spéirghorm #naturaldyes 172
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 29/05/2025@pameqa.bsky.social was so meticulous in making this year’s ✨Archipelago Festival of Colour✨ poster illustration! 😍 030
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 28/05/2025This year’s ✨Archipelago Festival of Colour✨ poster is here! 🤩 Once again, illustrated by the incredible @pameqa.bsky.social, who is a brilliant animator, illustrator & painter. She painted last year’s ceremonial bell tent, which will once again make an appearance in this year’s fest! 🌸 #spéirgorm 122
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 25/05/20252025 ✨Archipelago Festival of Colour✨ poster incoming!! 🤩 010
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 20/05/2025The area where the ✨Archipelago Festival of Colour✨ will happen boasts deposits of red Antrim ochre, known locally as ‘boles’. This iron ore is internationally recognised in both the fields of geology and artists pigment hunters as a rich source of ancient pigment 🧡 111
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 19/05/2025Earlier today I was ironing out the details of one of the workshops for the ✨Archipelago Festival of Colour✨ with the facilitators and we’re all super excited for it! All I’ll say for now is it involves wild clays and mineral pigments 🖤🤎🧡🤍 #spéirgorm #spéirghorm #naturalpigments 130
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 16/05/2025This was last month’s Open Studio Day! Want to come hang out & explore three natural colourmaking techniques for textiles + paper? The next Open Studio Day is Saturday 31 May! ✨ 📍 Donard, Co. Wicklow 👦🏼 Children welcome 🎟️ Book your spot here: events.talu.earth/events/talu/... #spéirgorm #spéirghorm 000
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 15/05/2025I *am* happy indeed! 🤩 ✨Archipelago Festival of Colour✨ 2025 poster coming soon!! 020
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 13/05/2025What a fun Saturday we had making inks from hedgerow plants in Roundwood! We then used the inks to paint all kinds of butterflies 🦋 Join us for the next workshop on the 16th of August to make chalk sticks from berries! 🫐→🖍️ 👉🏽 www.mermaidartscentre.ie/whats-on/tak... 👈🏽 #speirghorm #speirgorm 030
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 13/05/2025I just saw the first sketches of this year’s ✨Archipelago Festival of Colour✨ poster by @pameqa.bsky.social and I’m so excited to show you the final piece!! 👀 It’ll be extra special because this year’s poster will be screen printed using pigments that are significant to the festival 🎪🎨 010
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 13/05/2025Today I saw the first flowering weld plants of the season, growing in the plot of a future development in Dublin and now my day is made 🌼🥰✨ 010
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 12/05/2025Flax coming to my garden in 100 days! 🌱🩵 010
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 11/04/2025My studio visit for the Cosmos Conference is up, along with everyone else’s! You can still purchase tickets at www.cosmos-conference.com and start watching pre-recorded studio tours right now, before the live panels and bonus presentations begin later today! 🌼 010
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 08/04/2025Great day at the studio today, making inks from hedgerow plants 🌿 #makeink #botanicalink #naturaldye 0100
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 07/04/2025I just finished recording my virtual studio visit for the Cosmos Conference for natural dyers coming up this weekend! Have you purchased your ticket yet? 🤩 🌼 cosmos-conference.com 🌼 ___________ #naturaldye #naturaldyeing 130
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 03/04/2025Open Studio Day this Saturday from 11:00am to 3:00pm in #Donard, Co. #Wicklow! 🌈✨ The open studio day is an opportunity to have some guided but non-instructional time in the Talú natural dye studio, with the option to try out three different colourmaking techniques. #SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm 110
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 03/04/2025Can’t stop admiring my lil colour samples 🤎🩷💛 020
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 01/04/2025One dyestuff, so many different possibilities, depending on fibre type, pre-treatment process and use of colour modifiers! All these samples were dyed with avocado skins and stones 🥑 240
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 01/04/2025A beautiful morning spent making experimental butterflies from botanical inks 🦋 If you’re in #Ireland, you can join me and artist Elida Maiques for a workshop on 10 May in Roundwood, Co. Wicklow! 👉🏽 www.mermaidartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve... _____ #spéirghorm #naturaldye #botanicalink 120
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 28/03/2025🌸 Celebrating all creative mamas! 🌸 Heads up, Ireland! For this weekend only, I’ve got a special 2-for-less discount so you can bring your creative mam (biological, adopted or spiritual) to my colourful events! talu.earth/upcoming-wor... #spéirgorm 121
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 19/03/2025Today’s @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social podcast mentioned oak gall ink. Galls are lil’ tannin-rich protuberances created by the oak tree in response to a wasp egg on a young branch. Here’s Annie Hogg ceremonially demonstrating the alchemy of oak gall ink at last year’s Archipelago Festival of Colour 130
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 19/03/2025An excellent free resource by @carrysomers.bsky.social! 010
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 10/03/2025Really looking forward to my Spring Equinox natural dyeing workshop in Béal Feirste, which is now fully booked! 🎉 041
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 10/03/2025Variations of the same three dyes on the drying rack tonight: weld, avocado and black tea. 140
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 08/03/2025I spent this #InternationalWorkingWomensDay having a nourishing morning phone call with a beloved friend, talking about the complexities of belonging to two Lands, the precarity of being self-employed and sowing the seeds of some creative ideas 🌱 I doodled with watercolours from #madder pigment ♥️ 140
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 03/03/2025I just learned about pixelfed.social – an open-source photo sharing app – is anyone in there?pixelfed.socialpixelfedThe original Pixelfed instance, operated by the main developer @dansup 010
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 27/02/2025First day back in the studio proper, after 6 weeks in Mexico and 2 weeks of mostly computer work. Feels good! 💙 260
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 26/02/2025Amber is looking for new Bluesky friends! 💙 000
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 21/02/2025Alongside spreading the joy of natural dyeing, I’m also the co-founder of fibreshedireland.ie As a community-supported social enterprise, Fibreshed Ireland focuses on building networks to craft a regenerative Irish textile system based on local fibre, local dyes & local labour 💚vimeo.comWhat is Fibreshed Ireland?Fibreshed Ireland began in 2022 as an affiliate of the global Fibershed movement and we’ve defined the island of Ireland as our fibreshed. Our goal is to build… 051
Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 17/02/2025First module of the ✨Kitchen to Colour Lab✨ online course is up for this cohort and, I have to say, I’m proud of it 🥰 After such a rollercoaster of a launch, it feels so good to have it out. Now on to getting module 2 ready for next week! 💪🏼 120
Reposted by Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textilesSassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 14/02/2025The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico. 9984053010405