Welcome! My name is Amanda, and I’m a fiber artist and natural dyer. I weave, garden, dye, and teach workshops in a beautiful little valley at the end of a dirt road in Midcoast Maine.

Gallery

Cotton napkins: clay paste resist, farm-grown indigo dye, stencils and a wooden block
Alpaca-silk ruana dyed with black walnuts, madder, and buckthorn
Madder root, mordant pastes on cotton
Undulating twill woven with tussah silk and a silk/wool weft dyed with madder, indigo, and buckthorn
Dip-dyed indigo linen jumpsuit, made from Paper Theory’s Zadie sewing pattern
Photo by Paola Cala
Deflected doubleweave scarf in merino wool
10-yard towel project with multi-color warp
Botanical printing: coreopsis on silk
Farm-grown indigo on linen + cotton fabric, linen yarn
Silk embroidery yarn dyed with apple bark, cutch, madder root, and cochineal
Mordant printed silk scarf dyed with madder
Handwoven wedding shawl: hand-spun silk weft and a silk/wool warp dyed in a fermentation indigo vat
I love the way the warp and weft yarns took up the dye differently. I added subtle stripes using the warp yarn in a twill pattern.
Sumac on silk broadcloth
Rug weaving using wool strips for the weft on a barn loom at the Marshfield School of Weaving
Silk wound onto wooden bobbins, getting ready to create my warp
Madder dye bath + wet felting with naturally dyed wool
Madder = thrilling dye color
Hand woven shawl with an ivory-to-honey-colored silk yarn. It is soft, drapey, and warm with a beautiful, understated luster.
Cutch-dyed silk made into a nuno-felted top
Spindle-spun tussah silk for my wedding shawl + soft corriedale wool
The beginning of a felted rug with naturally-dyed merino
Dyers coreopsis + flowering japanese indigo in my garden
Poutine, aka Pooty cat