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The Textile Orchard

@textileorchard.bsky.social
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A map of textile artisans, producers, shops, museums, researchers... also a dye plants seed library, a group of dye gardeners, a wiki, a project on iNaturalist, lots of references on Zotero... thetextileorchard.wordpress.com/lin…

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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Lino sembrado y avanzando a buen ritmo 🤞 No encontraba la manera de publicar datos sobre el crecimiento de cultivo, así que me lo he tenido que inventar👇 thetextileorchard.substack.com/p/un-poco-ma... #lino #flax #Linumusitatissimum #cultivocasero #cultivafibras #fenología #BBCH #DarwinCore #DwC
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Who keeps a journal of the plants they grow? I talk about my own little experience growing #flax in pots in a new substack article, and I’d love to know if you keep a growing journal. thetextileorchard.substack.com/p/growing-lo... #phenology #characterisation #BBCH #DarwinCore #DwC
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
En Madrid tenemos la suerte de tener a una de las eminencias mundiales en tintes naturales, #AnaRoquero. Hace unos días La Sociedad de Etnobiología la invitó a dar una charla sobre la sostenibilidad de los #TintesNaturales y ya está publicada aquí: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNBw...
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Conocer las plantas tintóreas y utilizarlas responsablemente
YouTube video by Sociedad Etnobiología
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
¿Quién lleva un diario de las plantas que cultiva? Cuaderno de cultivo y fenología thetextileorchard.substack.com/p/cuaderno-d... #lino #Linumusitatissimum #cultivocasero #cultivafibras #fenología #caracterización #BBCH #DarwinCore #DwC
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
¡feliz 2026! happy 2026!
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 18/11/2025
97 years ago today, Steamboat Willie paddled onto the screen. In 2024, this iconic cartoon entered the public domain, opening new possibilities for sharing, remixing & reimagining. Follow us for Public Domain Day 2026 announcements! 👀 Full cartoon ➡️ archive.org/details/stea... #OTD #PublicDomain
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 18/11/2025
The Internet Archive’s microfiche digitization #livestream gives you real-time preservation work plus mellow lo-fi vibes — the chillest way to watch history get saved. Our second shift is live now (4 PM–Midnight PT). 📡 www.youtube.com/live/SxUjwZY... #LiveNow #Preservation #LiveStream @Archive.org
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lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to
Off Hours? Watch a 2hr stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gibUecoF1bEEver wonder how government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, b...
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Al llegar al Museo del Traje para participar en el grupo de trabajo de roseta canaria pensé en lo bien que quedaría un bordado en la torre del museo. ¿Cuál sería vuestra propuesta? Aquí os cuento la mía: thetextileorchard.substack.com/p/un-dechado...
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iTEXTILIS | The IK Workshop Society @itextilis.eurosky.social · 04/08/2025
From the Archive: Dyeing with Lichens – Traditions, Experiments and Books: 1740s to 1810s (2500 words). www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/dy...
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
A detail of the #madder I have at home. This year I'm planning to harvest the roots 🤞 In the meantime here are some flowers. They have five petals, but there are some with six! #RubiaTinctorum #TinctorialSeedLibrary
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Library Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
As more and more government information disappears, we're glad to see @archive.org (which has done so much already to preserve our online history) become an official Federal Depository Library! www.engadget.com/general/inte...
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Internet Archive is now an official US government document library
The US Senate has granted the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it officially part of an 1,100-library government network.
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Now dye fungi are in a split apart project from Tinctorial Collection on iNaturalist: www.inaturalist.org/projects/tin... To see them together, you still can visit Tinctorial Umbrella, along with other dye plants projects: www.inaturalist.org/projects/tin... @inaturalist.bsky.social
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Tinctorial Dye Fungi
Dye Fungi are less known than dye plants, yet still amazing. This group is only for known dye fungi around the world. Take pictures, not lichens!
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
you'll never know when it's going to happen first flax flower #flax #firstflaxflower #flaxflowers #blueflowers #lino #floresdelino #flaxtolinen #floresazules #blueflowers #linumusitatissimum #plantsforfiber #fiberplants #textileplants #textilegarden #thetextileorchard #textileorchard
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Carry Somers @carrysomers.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Out today: The CRAFTED Report, exposing blind spots in fashion & homeware climate claims. The report launches the Artisans’ Index, the first research initiative to benchmark how 50 global brands disclose the environmental impact of artisan production. leagueofartisans.org/crafted #artisans
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
And so I spent yesterday's morning, making a 'roseta', a type of lace from Canary Islands, at Museo del Traje for World Wide Knit in Public Day 2025.
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Este findesemana participo en este programa organizado por el CIEA El Retiro que relaciona medio ambiente e industria textil. Sólo dos días, con multitud de actividades interesantes, y algunas necesitan inscripción. Cambiando el hilo. Tejiendo el cambio, 24—25 mayo diario.madrid.es/cieaelretiro...
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
#freakalert: Is someone into phenology? This year I'm growing flax again in a pot, but also taking notes about their growing. I'm using this sheet in case you'd like to join, comment, discuss, etc: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #flax
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ana.normal @totebug.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
internet archive should have a cute little mascot they can make into a plushie
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iTEXTILIS | The IK Workshop Society @itextilis.eurosky.social · 24/03/2025
NEW ESSAY: Bolsters and Pillows – Swedish Weaving Traditions and Historical Reproductions. www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/bo...
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Carry Somers @carrysomers.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
If you're interested in knowing more about botanical fibres and dyes from Latin America, my Dictionary of Plant Fibre & Colour is free to download from @churchillfship.bsky.social website, documenting close to 100 plants. www.churchillfellowship.org/ideas-expert... #naturaldyes #sustainablefashion
Dictionary book cover with a black and white drawing of a genipap fruit and leaves.
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Would you like to try a group about #NaturalDyes, an open space to discuss and learn in common at MeWe? Then, join here: mewe.com/join/tinctor...
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Visual Artists Ireland @visualartistsirl.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Workshop | Beginner Embroidery with Sarah Buckley from Cork Craft & Design Join Cork Craft & Design member Sarah Buckley for a relaxing 2 hour workshop to start your creative stitch journey. visualartists.ie/advert/works...
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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 10/03/2025
Really looking forward to my Spring Equinox natural dyeing workshop in Béal Feirste, which is now fully booked! 🎉
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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 24/01/2025
✨Early bird tickets!✨ ARCHIPELAGO FESTIVAL OF COLOUR 🗓️ 26 - 27 July 2025 📍Willow & Lore, Co. Antrim, North of Ireland festivalofcolour.co
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Archipelago Festival of Colour
An intimate festival dedicated entirely to natural dyes, pigments, and inks, honouring the Land that provides them.
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I've published also on #substack: Blue easter eggs with common grape hyacinth (Muscari neglectum) open.substack.com/pub/thetexti... #naturaldyes #muscarineglectum
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Blue easter eggs with common grape hyacinth (Muscari neglectum)
This is Muscari neglectum, according to botanists. Also called 'ajo de cigüeña' [stork garlic] at my village (in spanish).This humble blueish flower has been traditionally used as a natural dye in som...
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is Muscari neglectum, according to botanists. Also called 'ajo de cigüeña' [stork garlic] at my village (in spanish). This humble blueish flower has been traditionally used as a natural dye in some places in Italy to give colour to easter eggs, as Paolo Maria Guarrera reports. So I tried.
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Blue easter eggs with common grape hyacinth (Muscari neglectum)
Once carnival is over, next big festivity in Europe is Easter. May you celebrate it or not, it's the time of some traditions still in use like making easter eggs. It's blue, I made this photo to see the colour contrast, 'm not faking it! Maybe your childhood is plenty or memories like that, but not mine, as in my culture, let's say, celebration was more about school holidays, visiting our grandparents at the village, or eating season sweets like…
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 08/02/2025
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Aaron Swartz, patron saint of the open-access internet, gets immortalized in SF
Hundreds gathered at the Internet Archive for the unveiling of a statue honoring the late programmer, who's been embraced as a tech hero.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 07/02/2025
From @jdshadel.com JD Shadel's essay, "What Early Internet Era GIFs Show Us About Preserving Digital Culture," in the Vanishing Culture report: blog.archive.org/2025/02/05/v...
The image shows the cover of the Internet Archive's Vanishing Culture report. On the left, the words "Vanishing Culture" are prominently displayed in bold, dark font against a neutral background. To the right, a set of cultural artifacts including a VHS tape, an open book, a film reel, a vinyl record, and a web link icon appear to disintegrate into pixels, symbolizing the disappearance of analog and digital media. Below these icons is a pixelated computer hand cursor pointing to the word "SAVE," emphasizing the need for preservation. The Internet Archive's logo is placed in the bottom-right corner.
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Takuo Matsuzawa @matsuzawa.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Harvesting and threshing urushi tree seeds 🌱
Urushi seedsthreshing urushi
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/01/2025
Celebrate the public domain with the Internet Archive on Wednesday, January 22nd ⤵️ 10am PT—Register for our VIRTUAL party: www.eventbrite.com/e/singin-in-... 6pm PT—Come to the Internet Archive for our IN-PERSON film screening: www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-...
A vibrant and retro-style illustration celebrating the theme "Singin' in the Public Domain." The image features a red umbrella, music notes, a film clapperboard, and scattered books. The Lockette, a yellow dancing padlock with an open lock, symbolizes unlocking creativity, surrounded by colorful streamers and confetti. The title text is bold and playful, with "Singin' in the" above "Public Domain," set on a background of musical staff lines.
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Takuo Matsuzawa @matsuzawa.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
A mask dyed using urushi tree chips. It features a vibrant yellow color and has exceptional antibacterial and antiviral properties. These properties have been verified by Japanese testing facilities. While it sold well during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is no longer in production.
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year! ✨✨✨ Which are you wishes for this new year? Mine is: let's hope we can enjoy the garden. (in peace, of course, always) #DyePlants #DyeGarden #NaturalDyes
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Carry Somers @carrysomers.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Standing with Shipibo-Konibo artists Sadith and Olinda Silvano and their community against the cultural appropriation of their designs. #shipibokonibo #culturalappropriation
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 27/11/2024
Brief update on our ongoing efforts to allow users to specify consent (or not) for AI training: 🧵
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Takuo Matsuzawa @matsuzawa.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This crowdfunding seeks donations to support the restoration of the urushi industry, which was affected by the earthquake. The funds will be used to grow urushi saplings over a long period, plant them, and harvest them in ten years for use in Wajima's art. 🌱 gogetfunding.com/wajima/
This crowdfunding seeks donations to support the restoration of the urushi industry, which was affected by the earthquake. The funds will be used to grow urushi saplings over a long period, plant them, and harvest them in ten years for use in Wajima's art. 🌱
gogetfunding.com/wajima/This crowdfunding seeks donations to support the restoration of the urushi industry, which was affected by the earthquake. The funds will be used to grow urushi saplings over a long period, plant them, and harvest them in ten years for use in Wajima's art. 🌱
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
In love with this japanese artist, Samiro Yunoki, that uses #katazome technique on textiles: www.samiro.net/index2.html
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
So I forgot to share this news here. Another dye bed in a garden! This one is in London, part of the Garden Museum and located in their Healing Garden at Old Paradise Gardens, Lambeth High Street, SE1 7JR Read the story here: gardenmuseum.org.uk/colouring-cl... #dyegarden
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Colouring Cloth: Natural Dyeing and Dye Gardens - Garden Museum
The Garden Museum is creating a new Dye bed in our Healing Garden this year, Head of Learning Janine Nelson explains how the project started: Last year as part our Wild Escape Art Fund project with pr...
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Kosher Nostra @harfenist.bsky.social · 06/06/2024
Friendly reminder that @archive.org is a crucial site/library/tool/etc not just for those of us who use it for research and fact-checking and purposes—it also is the greatest "museum" of internet history on earth. Where else could you find this Twin Peaks s3 gem? web.archive.org/web/20170710...
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 06/06/2024
News from #LaMancha: - José Manuel Sánchez Miguel is taking 1550 #merinas from Cáceres to Riaño, and it will take about 40 days. More details about #transhumance still surviving in Spain on this newsletter on substack: plataformadefensavvppclm.substack.com/p/boletin-95...
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
Second flower of Commelina If you think this blue is impressive you must see in the flesh. #naturaldyes #dyeplants
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
Really good and rare opportunity to join Ana Roquero, Dominique Cardon and Sandrine Rozier at once! easdsegovia.com/jornadas-eur... #naturaldyes #symposium
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Jornadas Europeas del color natural
“Desde el Departamento de Arte Textil de la Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño “Casa de los Picos” de Segovia hemos organizado unas JORNADAS EUROPEAS DEL COLOR NATURAL dedicadas a explorar …
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
Slugs vs dye plants results so far: - Cota tinctoria not survived - Solidago sp. survived - Cosmos sulphureus not survived - Rubia tinctorum survived - Persicaria tinctoria survived #gardening #dyeplants
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
Yeah, we are in that season! As delicate as ephemeral, first flax flower. #flax #lino #linumusitatissimum #fiberplants #textileplants
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Áine ☽𖤐☾ @whoa-magic.lol · 10/02/2024
How to Get Free Seeds for Your Garden Score #FreeSeeds for Your #Garden www.thespruce.com/how-to-get-f... #Gardening #Seeds #Free
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How to Get Free Seeds for Your Gardens
Get free seeds for your garden with these resources for saving, trading, and requesting free seeds.
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
Some days ago I received in the email the Cool Beans! newsletter, by Ciara O’Brien, Founder of Prince Georges County Seed Library and talking 'From Classroom to Community Impact'. It is always interesting to know the story of other seed libraries, how they appeared and are organised, etc. #OpenSeeds
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 19/05/2024
So I wanted to show photos of some of the plants I grow, here are some from home. Woad, Isatis tinctoria. The two plants in the corner have given a good growth these last cooler days. They are ready to be put in pots or directly in the ground... I don't know yet. #IsatisTinctoria #dyeplants
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 18/05/2024
This is an 'alazor' flower, spanish for safflower, Carthamus tinctorius in latin. And it is starting to change from yellow to red.
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 07/04/2024
And new seedlings going on: Japanese indigo! These were some seeds Kokoro Indigo Culture sent me past year, they are Persicaria tinctoria 'Chijimiba' cultivar and I picked up enough seeds on October so I'm trying to cover a 12 m2 bed for this year. And they are germinating already, so good!
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The Textile Orchard @textileorchard.bsky.social · 07/04/2024
Today on The Textile Orchard Cultivation Logbook: Madder is Sprouting! Some roots I buried some days ago in the blue pot are now giving new stems. I didn't give a penny for them, so I brought some seeds for this pot, but there were these couple of sprouts (and many other volunteer seeds).
a couple of madder sprouts and some other seeds germinating
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