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Untitled, Purple Flowers from the series Pluck flower petals, berries, and tree bark to create your own dyes!

Here's the perfect activity to while away those long summer afternoons!

With help from our online webzine ¡del Corazón!, create your own natural dyes. This activity describes how to dye eggs, but you can apply these techniques to many projects.

Explore the webzine further to learn how weavers Lisa and Irvin Trujillo make their own dyes for textiles and fabric art. Irvin Trujillo made the artwork shown below, The Hook and the Spider, with naturally dyed wool.

Get funky! Tie-dye a T-shirt, canvas sneakers, or any old fabric scraps. Go wild in the great outdoors and add some color to your world!


The Hook and the Spider Pictured top: Kenda North, born 1951, Untitled, Purple Flowers from the series "Marks on the Landscape", 1986, dye transfer print, 14 x 17 1/2 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase.

Pictured bottom: Irvin L. Trujillo, born 1954, The Hook and the Spider, 1995, naturally dyed wool, 92 1/2 x 54 x 1/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Anderson III.