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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

267) Sasha Duerr: Natural colors and the convergence of slow food and slow fashion

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Sasha Duerr is an artist and designer who works with plant-based palettes, natural dyes, and place-based recipes. She is the founder of Permacouture Institute and the author of Natural Color, The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes, and Natural Palettes

In this podcast episode, Sasha sheds light on how the creative industry's obsession with Pantone's colors of the year reflects our dominant culture; the potential of medicinal plants, when used as dyes on our clothing, to aid in our healing and wellness; and more.

 

Featured music: American Dream by Raye Zaragoza

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Because, you know, when you look at a pantone swatch and you say, oh, here is, you know, like, whatever, we'll just say, here's forest fern and here's your forest burn color.

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But if you were actually to create a dye bath with a forest fir, you end up with like this

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amber like kind of pink. And it's a, it's a fascinating thing. So I always think of the pantone

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aspect as kind of like the surface swatching where working with plant dyes or plant color becomes like

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this, I don't, maybe visibility of an

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inner working that we as humans may not get to see right away.

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