Welcome to Brighid’s Dyers
Brighid’s Dyers are a group of solar dyeing enthusiasts that live primarily in the Northeast of the United States. Watch here for important solar dyeing information or let us know about a solar dyeing project you were involved in.
Hello Dyers and Dyer Wanna-Bees,
This message is going out to current “Brighid’s Dyers” and folks who may want to be part of future possibilities. Please forward to anyone (locally, nationally or internationally) who you may think would be interested in dyeing – natural or synthetic, especially with a particular emphasis on solar dyeing.
Thank you to everyone who attended the first, annual “Brighid’s Dyers”
potluck a few weeks back. It was held at my home in Whitingham, Vermont.
We had a great time chatting and discussing how we’d like to see Brighid’s Dyers go forward. It was inspiring and fun to see each other’s dye samples and wonderful, finished projects. Plus, the kitchen table was laden with an array of delicious food from all and for all to share. Thank you!!
Note that I wrote the pot-luck will be annual — but next year it will be held sometime closer to Halloween in October, given that that just happens to be my favorite holiday and we can use it as a “theme.” How about the option that if you come in costume, you’ll be eligible to enter a raffle for something that would be interesting to a dyer? Good? The pot-luck date will be well into autumn and we’ll have had a full summer of solar dyeing behind us and will be eager to share our triumphs and experimentations. As always, any and all thoughts on this are encouraged.
ESJ’s Note – Since Jenny will be instructing at SOAR – we are looking at the middle of November for the next meeting.
More to consider…would you like to partake and receive a quarterly, e-newsletter from Brighid’s Dyers? To do this, we would ask that two, different folks PER MONTH write up at least a paragraph, but more is very welcome, on anything to do with solar dyeing. This could be anything of a solar dyeing nature you’ve discovered that works well or doesn’t, your experiments, an interesting way you’ve “harnessed the sun,” a personal find regarding a dyeplant, dye or technique, an autobiographical account of how you got into dyeing or the fiberarts, etc. The dates for sending the e-newsletter would be at the beginning of the following months: January, April, July, and October. Please e-mail me of your interest to participate and write and which month you’d like to write for. Don’t be shy and please don’t delay in showing your intentions!! Don’t worry if you’ve never written anything like this before – we’ll take care of editing and getting it ready to go out to those interested. Note, however, this is down-and-dirty editing at best, and I’m known to mix up tenses and put too many or not enough commas in, so be kind!! I’d need the writing a week prior to the first day of those newsletter months. What month would YOU like to write for?
ESJ’s Note – This page on the website might replace the quarterly newsletter
Another thing discussed at the pot-luck was the possibility of having our own web-page(s.) One of the original members of “Brighid’s Dyers” has offered to help with this. It would be a wonderful way to showcase our samples/projects through photos. More to come on this….
“Brighid’s Dyers” currently does not have any membership fees and may never go that route, if we so choose. However, it would be wonderful if we could be part of a charity project. One thought is to raise enough $ to send a solar panel(s) or solar box(es) to third world countries for cooking needs or to begin a solar dye project in a school system. Your thoughts on this and how to go forward, should we want to realize it, would be appreciated.
That’s all for now, folks. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Cheers, Jenny Bakriges
