Passionate about textiles, botany and especially about natural colors applied to textiles. I am specialized in dying wool with pigments extracted from plants, my personal favorite is Bue di Guado (Isatis) a blue dye that is a big part of my region, le Marche, history: here they cultivate the biggest crop in Europe and they have a production center that you can visit if you wish. Dyeing fibers naturally is part of a project I’ve called CineBotanica within which I organize courses that teach how to recognize the local flora and work shops on how to produce the ink and natural lacquer to be able to also cover writing and embroidering. In this course I will show you how to dye wool with blue and green pigments extracted from local plants, the wool we are going to dye is of a high quality: it comes from a herd of sheep from Puglia (Gentile) that has been crossed with a battering ram (Merinos) to create an even softer wool. I work in the cliffs surrounded by typical Italian towns, 2.5 km from the sea and even closer to the mountains.
There are many safe trails in the area and if you love the sea you can find some sandy beaches and some rocky ones full of Mediterranean vegetation about an hour away from where I am.