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Catherine Owens
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Textile artist! 🧶 Natural dyes, punch needle, botanical illustration, and storytelling

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The latest installment in my Natural Dye Chronicles series is a short & sweet little ditty, a soliloquy on the fleeting nature of color. Hope you enjoy!

#naturaldye #naturalinks #art
On Living Color
I’ve been fixated on color lately: my eyes comb every tree for bulging bits of neon green, fallen cottonwood catkins have stained our…
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April 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Finally posting proper photos of this piece! “We’re all Made of Madder,” #punchneedle tapestry using wool yarn dyed with madder, marigold, indigo, cutch, and pomegranate dyes. (51.25” x 31”)

#fiberart #naturaldyes #fiberartist #womensart #artyear
Punch needle fiber art tapestry made with plant- & insect-dyed wool yarns. The tapestry pictures a woman with flowing fuchsia hair and madder plants growing through her hands with visible red roots. The woman is wearing a blue dress with orange and yellow color blocks against a blue background with a dark blue floral pattern. Close up of the woman in a punch needle tapestry. The photo shows the yarn details on her face, neck, and hair Close up of woman’s hand in the punch needle tapestry. Her hand is palm up with a madder plant growing out the top side, and red roots growing out the bottom side. She’s wearing olive green nail polish. The orange and yellow color blocks of her dress, as well as the blue background of her dress are also visible. Super close up of the woman’s face in the punch needle tapestry to show the stitching detail.
April 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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So much variety! #fiberarts are the best arts 🤗
With 60 Artists, 'The Golden Thread' Weaves Together a Survey of Contemporary Fiber Art
'The Golden Thread 2: A Fiber Art Show' returns with more than 100 artworks made by 60 artists from around the globe.
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April 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Red onion, red onion with iron, avocado, and osage orange inks in process & in action. Love these hues together 😍🌿💁🏻‍♀️

#naturaldyes #naturalinks #naturalcolor #livingcolor
April 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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I took a break from simmering yarns this week to prepare some natural inks for an upcoming workshop. Distilling color from food scraps never gets old 🙃

#naturalink #naturaldye #inkmaking #livingcolor
A close up photo of red onion skins simmering in a pot of water with a silver spoon. A hand holding an antique silver spoon filled with red liquid over a pot of cooked & soggy red onion skins A pot filled with avocado pits and skins, with little bits of a rust-colored liquid peeking out in pools around the avocados. A coffee filter in a glass funnel over a beaker. A deep red liquid is being strained through the coffee filter, and luminescent streaks of red run up the ridges of the coffee filter.
April 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Whelp I’ve managed to go further down the rabbit hole of woad in ancient Britain. 🙃 At the risk of putting a target on my back, I’ve plunged deep into the debate over the Picts and their alleged woad body art.

#naturaldye #naturaldyes #historyofcraft #scottishhistory #woad #picts #britishhistory
The Natural Dye Chronicles: Woad, Part III — CATHERINE OWENS
Woad and the Picts: Tattoo or Taboo?
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April 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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It’s energizing to witness how #fiberart continually brings people together in service of the bigger picture. What is it about fiber art that leads to this collaborative spirit? History? Women? I’m fairly new to this “genre” of art and let me tell you I can’t get enough of y’all’s good vibes 💛🧶
womensartbluesky.bsky.social womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Apr 4
The Coat of Hopes, a patchwork coat on an ongoing walking pilgrimage through the UK, raising ecological issues, made by, worn and walked by 100s of people on a journey on foot over more than a 1000 miles so far.... #FridayFeeling
April 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Love this creativity! Quilting but 3D 🙌🏼
Emily Van Hoff: Transforming Traditional Quilting Into 3D Textile Art And Modern Design - icanbecreative
Emily Van Hoff transforms traditional quilting into sculptural art, creating dynamic textile pieces that combine geometric patterns, vibrant colors, and inn
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April 4, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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I’m very excited for this Friday’s opening at Alto Gallery, featuring work from myself and the other four artists in last year’s Land Line Artist Residency with Denver Botanic Gardens. If you live near Denver, stop by—it’s going to be a great show!
April 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Fantastic turnout for my local #teslatakedown protest today! Thanks to the stranger who handed me an American flag on my way in: true patriotism is standing up against what’s happening to our country right now. Fascism has no place here.
March 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Tesla Takedown day is tomorrow, Saturday March 29! I’ll be joining peaceful protestors outside my local Tesla showroom—check out the @teslatakedown.com website to see how you can join a protest in your local community!🤘🏼
#TeslaTakedown #elonmustgo #fuckfascism #resist #BoycottTesla
Tesla Takedown | Take action at Tesla showrooms everywhere.
The stakes couldn’t be higher. No one is coming to save us—not politicians, not the media.
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March 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Studio ASMR. 🔊😂🤷🏻‍♀️ I finally pulled this project over the finish line yesterday! Sheesh all those steps after the #punchneedle part is done really add up. 🫠

#fiberart #fiberartist #naturaldyes #artyear #womensart #blueskyartshow #artistsofbluesky #naturaldye
March 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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“I didn’t expect to be threatened with arrest if I refused to leave. (…) That was the moment I realized the symbolic and political power of a needle and thread — how an act as simple as embroidery can become a form of resistance, protest, and struggle.”

More of this, please! ✊🏼💪🏼🙌🏼

#fiberart
Mexican Artist’s Embroidery Unravels Global Gender Violence Crisis
In a pop-up exhibition in New York City this week, Elina Chauvet bookends Women’s History Month with a crucial call to end the cycle.
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March 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Today’s #makersmARTch prompt “stab” feels more appropriate as a video… 🤷🏻‍♀️

#punchneedle #fiberart #fiberarts #naturaldye #fiberartist #womensart #mkrsmARTch #artistsofbluesky
March 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Today’s prompt is “pattern.” Here’s a snippet of a sneaky pattern in black ink on black paper that I snuck into this silkscreened print of my coffee plant drawing. (Along with the stippled original) 🙃

#makersmARTch #botanicalillustration #coffeaarabica #blackandwhiteart
#stippleart
#penandink
March 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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I’m hoping natural dyes count for today’s #makersmARTch prompt, “stain”!? Wool yarns dyed with indigo, weld, madder & cutch make up the palette for my new punch needle piece 🙃

#naturaldyes #naturaldye #plantdye #punchneedle #fiberarts #fiberartist
March 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Fun fact for today’s #makersmARTch prompt “draw”— I started my art career by drawing on people’s walls! Chalk art is what brought me to my creative calling, & was my jam for years. I don’t do much of that anymore, but my love of plants is still going strong. 🌿

#botanicalillustration #chalkart
March 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Printing with #Naturaldyes for today’s #makersmARTch prompt, “print.” 🙃
March 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Wash day! Super excited to start working with this deep blue indigo-dyed yarn 💙

#naturaldyes #indiedyes #indigo #fiberarts #fiberartist #naturaldye
March 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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So glad to see Simone Elizabeth Saunders featured here—her work is stunning and a constant source of inspiration! 🙌🏼
thisiscolossal.com Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · Mar 13
Simone Elizabeth Saunders explores Black identity in relation to kinship, power, and survival.

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a hand-tufted embroidery composition of a Black woman crouched down next to a fox, with sunflowers and thistles on either side and the word "TRUTH" written large enough to fill the entire background
March 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Today’s #MakersmARTch prompt is “ink”. In addition to working with natural dyes & writing about them, I also draw them! This is a stippled pen & ink drawing of madder from a few years back; white ink on black paper, 22”x30”
#MkrsmARTch #botanicalillustration #penandink #stippleart #botanicaldrawing
March 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Just called my senators! Took less than 3 minutes to leave a message with both of them ✌🏼
aoc.bsky.social Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Mar 12
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Indigo never disappoints 💙🩵🌿

#naturaldyes #naturaldye #plantdye #textileart #textileartist #fiberart #fiberartist #indigo #yarn #yarnart #punchneedle #yarncraft
March 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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My latest installment of The Natural Dye Chronicles, “Woad: Part II” is now up! I dive into the unlikely alchemy of indigo and the ancient pioneers who gave us blue. 💙

#naturaldye #naturaldyes #woad #indigo #historyofcraft #plantdye #plantdyes #fiberart #fiberarts #fiberartist #makersmARTch
The Natural Dye Chronicles: Woad, Part II — CATHERINE OWENS
The unlikely alchemy of indigo and the ancient pioneers who gave us blue.
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March 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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A beautiful reminder as we sit down to work, that it’s not just about finding solace and distraction in dark times. We also have the opportunity (duty?) to keep these long-spun threads of resistance alive.

#fiberarts #fiberartist #textileart #textileartist
greengoatranch.bsky.social greengoatranch.bsky.social @greengoatranch.bsky.social · Mar 10
Creativity thrives at the edge of chaos, shaping resistance in ways words can’t. Fiber arts weave rebellion into every stitch, challenging norms and telling untold stories. What we create isn’t just beautiful—it’s powerful, defiant, and deeply human.

The Radical Roots of Crafting: Why Our Hands Have Always Been Political
Crafting isn’t just about beauty—it’s about resistance, storytelling, and reclaiming women’s work. Discover the radical roots of craft and why it still matters.
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March 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM