When I was first setting up the Try Handmade Market, long-time advocate of 1000 Markets Diana, of Dye Diana Dye, was one of the first people to jump in and let me know to ask her for any help I might need. It really made 1km start to feel like a friendly community to me.
Can you believe the detail in her shirts? Her shop tagline is incredibly appropriate: “it’s not your typical tiedye” — that’s for sure! Don’t get me wrong, I love regular tiedye, but this is a whole different animal, and the patterns are fascinating.
From Diana herself: I love dyeing things. There’s just something intensely satisfying to me about these Shibori resist techniques – particularly the hand-stitched ones – perhaps it satisfies the part of me that needs to embroider. Except this embroidery all gets pulled out, and leaves behind color magic.
Magic is right.
Erika Jurney
Erika Jurney is the founder of Try Handmade. She loves the handmade and wants you to love it too.you might also like...
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Thank you, Erika! What a wonderful write-up. :)
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Love your blog and absolutely love Diane’s Dying. I am glad you shared with us. I also want to check out the handmade community. I am going to keep tabs on you! Stephanie
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Everyone needs truly special tie dye from Diana! When you say one of a kind, there’s no way any 2 could be alike!! My daughter loves hers.
Thanks for all you do to support handmade, Erika! Diana is an amazing magical woman whose work sings with spirit and wild creativity. Her work is an inspiration.
Thank you for highlighting her!
Dye Diana Dye is the shop to visit when life is feeling mundane and colorless. Diana’s work is not only wearable, but frameable! Thanks for sharing your talents with us. The Try Handmade blog is terrific!
Amazing write-up on Dye Diana Dye. She is absolutely amazing. We 100% agree with Wendy Russell above in that Diana’s work is frameable! We reference it as “art disguised as unique and elegant woman’s clothing”. We are so proud to have someone like Diana as a Seller on Zecozi.com – We just made her our Seller of the Day. We hope that everyone reading this great article from Erika will take some time to get to know Dye Diana Dye. You won’t regret it. She’s amazing!
Best,
Ryan Taft
See the Dye Diana Dye Store on ZECOZI: http://www.zecozi.com//store/index/cf708ad2-c776-4f7b-8478-f64a420673c1
This is the best-looking tie dye I’ve ever seen, and I’ve done and seen a lot of tie dye thanks to our annual pilgrimage to family camp. The color palette alone would make these shirts exceptional, but the special images are even more impressive.