Natural Dyes…Coming Soon!!!
Dear Chi Chi Amor Customers…
Check out this very interesting article about recent archaeological findings that reveal the complexity and amazing quality of ancient Mayan textiles. Also note the references to NATURAL DYES! Ancient Mayan Tomb Yields Amazing Fabrics
We are soooooo excited to announce that in less than 3 weeks, our NEW NATURALLY DYED items will arrive from Guatemala. We will have dresses, shirts and cargo shorts in the most beautiful shades you have ever seen. Filomena, our amazingly talented natural dye producer (see above) from a little town on Lago Atitlan, makes her dyes from things like beets and ash, aloe vera, and sacatinta, (a plant native to Central America). Wait until you see this stuff. It’ll knock your socks off, probably right into a pail of natural dyes! ;) We bonded with Filomena from the second we met her. She’s from a town that has a creation legend that begins with the birth of twins. When she found out I (Shari) is the mother of twins, she started pulling things off of the walls of her in-home store, to give to us as gifts. She gave me two red scarfs to give to my twin boys and Danielle was the lucky recipient of a gorgeous woven textile.
Check out this very interesting article about recent archaeological findings that reveal the complexity and amazing quality of ancient Mayan textiles. Also note the references to NATURAL DYES! Ancient Mayan Tomb Yields Amazing Fabrics
We are soooooo excited to announce that in less than 3 weeks, our NEW NATURALLY DYED items will arrive from Guatemala. We will have dresses, shirts and cargo shorts in the most beautiful shades you have ever seen. Filomena, our amazingly talented natural dye producer (see above) from a little town on Lago Atitlan, makes her dyes from things like beets and ash, aloe vera, and sacatinta, (a plant native to Central America). Wait until you see this stuff. It’ll knock your socks off, probably right into a pail of natural dyes! ;) We bonded with Filomena from the second we met her. She’s from a town that has a creation legend that begins with the birth of twins. When she found out I (Shari) is the mother of twins, she started pulling things off of the walls of her in-home store, to give to us as gifts. She gave me two red scarfs to give to my twin boys and Danielle was the lucky recipient of a gorgeous woven textile.