STUDIO 24: Community Dye Day - Weed your Wardrobe with Sasha Duerr In-Person
“Weed your Wardrobe” and upcycle pre- loved garments and textiles straight from the weeds in your garden. Some of the most invasive plants in your garden can be sources of both color and beauty. We’ll use local, seasonal weeds found commonly in Boulder to create three beautiful natural dye baths to share as a community and help to re-imagine waste- turning weeds in both your garden and your wardrobe- into wonder!
Up-cycled and thrifted fabrics will be available to experiment with and small, lightweight, natural fiber garments and fabrics brought from home, are welcome with permission to dip into the dyes.
Mending, surface design, and resist dyeing techniques will also have drop in tables for even more creativity in caring and refreshing your textiles!
This is an all ages, beginner to natural dye friendly event! Come drop in and learn about natural dye.
Craft Studio
Boulder Public Library presents Craft Studio in STUDIO 24! During this 3-month focus (November - January), Craft Studio is dedicated to exploring the joy of making things by hand. Classes will invite participants to slow down, engage deeply, and rediscover the beauty of tactile creation. From weaving and woodworking to natural dyeing and paper arts, Craft Studio celebrates time honored techniques that foster mindful creativity and meaningful community.
- Date:
- Saturday, Nov 15 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Location:
- STUDIO 24 Classroom, NoBo Library, Makerspace STUDIO 24
- Audience:
- All ages
- Categories:
- Make & Create
Maker In Residence
Sasha Duerr is an artist, designer, and educator who works with plant-based color and natural palettes. Sasha centers her practice and research on the collaborative color potential of weeds, food and floral waste, and local and seasonal ingredients. Teaching for over a decade at California College of Arts with a joint appointment in Textiles and Fine Arts, Sasha lectures, consults and widely designs curriculum and courses in the intersection of natural color, slow food, slow fashion and social practice. In 2007, Sasha founded the Permacouture Institute to encourage the exploration of regenerative design practices for fashion and textiles. From "Dinners to Dye For" to "Weeding Your Wardrobe" and "Seasonal Color Wheels" her extensive work with plant-based color palettes has been featured in the New York Times, American Craft Magazine, Domino, Elle Decor Uk, Selvedge, and the Huffington Post. Sasha is the author of The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes (Timber Press/Workman 2011), NATURAL COLOR (Watson-Guptill/Ten Speed Press 2016), and NATURAL PALETTES (Princeton Architectural Press 2020).
This new Maker-In-Residence program is made possible with funding from the Boulder Library Foundation. The Foundation organizes local philanthropic support for innovation, capital improvements, creativity, and expanded outreach and literacy for Boulder's Libraries. 
This class will be at the STUDIO 24 Makerspace in the NoBo Library. Here are directions and parking information for the NoBo Library. Our Makerspace classes often have long waitlists. We sincerely hope that you can attend, but if you are for some reason unable to, please cancel your registration ASAP so that one of the people on our waiting list can take your place in the class. You can cancel by going back to your confirmation email and following the link.
All makerspace patrons are expected to adhere to makerspace and library rules and policies. All users and visitors must agree to and sign the Acknowledgment of Risk and Release Form each visit before entering the space.