THIS LAUNCH BRINGS TO YOU TWO NEW SILK DYEABLES:
A COLLABORATION BETWEEN
INDIA FLINT & MAIWA
These are clothes for all occasions, that rest kindly against the skin, wash easily, wear well. This is an ever-evolving collection of garments that are intended to be layered and styled however you wish.
Friday, August 15, 2025
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THE SHIMOGA SHIRT
This Maiwa piece is the perfect oversized shirt. The versatility of wearing it open or closed makes it a Maiwa favourite and a great layering piece. The Shimoga Shirt stays true to what we believe about timeless sustainable design; it's easily worn year round.
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
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A COLLABORATION BETWEEN
INDIA FLINT & MAIWA
Maiwa dyeable garments and the Journeywoman Collection
They are for dyers what a blank page is for a writer or what a blank canvas is for a painter.
Thursday, July 25, 2024
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THE JOURNEYWOMAN COLLECTION
A COLLABORATION BETWEEN
INDIA FLINT & MAIWA
Thursday, March 07, 2024
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Maiwa's Journeywoman Calico Dress Handwoven in Mulberry Silk.
Nicola dyed this dress with natural indigo from persicaria tinctoria. She is standing in the 2023 persicaria crop growing at the Maiwa Dye Garden.
Thursday, September 14, 2023
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Maiwa's Journeywoman Calico Dress Handwoven with Mulberry Silk — printed with cosmos flowers by @thedogwooddyer.
Thursday, July 20, 2023
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A COLLABORATION BETWEEN
INDIA FLINT & MAIWA
Thursday, July 06, 2023
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A COLLABORATION BETWEEN
INDIA FLINT & MAIWA
Clothing made from natural fibres, sewn with cotton thread.
Ready for your dye pot, your embellishment, or to be worn as is.
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
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Wander. Gather. Journey. This dress will take you there.
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
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Green to Blue in an Afternoon
with Persicaria Tinctoria
Before dawn breaks we are out in the dye garden leaning over the beds of persicaria tinctoria. Everything is deep green. This robust plant is also known as Japanese indigo and the seeds are sometimes listed for sale under the name polygonum tinctorium. This is the same plant that is used in the Sukomo process mentioned in Takayuki Ishii's book "The Way of Indigo"
Maiwa maintains a number of beds of persicaria to test planting and growing strategies. We look at different techniques to measure, not only the vitality of the plants, but also the yield and quality of the dye. We work with different extraction methods and some ways to direct dye cloth and garments.
We mix fresh leaves, the cloth to be dyed, and a little salt. It takes about half an hour of constant squeezing and squishing to obtain a strong even coverage. This techniques is called fresh leaf dyeing — and it is very satisfying. You can harvest your leaves in the morning and dye a garment the same day.
This technique - sometimes called the salt rub method - is easiest on silks, but it will work on any fibre that will take natural dyes. We've done it light and dark and also combined it with weld and marigold grown in our dye garden to produce these gorgeous teals.
DYEABLE CLOTHING & BLANKS
See all of Maiwa's Natural Dyes
OUR WEBSITE DEDICATED TO NATURAL DYES
This journal has been an idea of ours for a long time. It is a little like a combination of a travel journal and a natural dye journal. It is the journal we have always wanted!
To our U.S. customers – don't forget that the exchange rate works in your favour, it's like an extra discount.
Wednesday, September 07, 2022
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A COLLABORATION BETWEEN
Shown: Maiwa's Journeywoman Collection dyed with Cutch.
Shown: Maiwa's Journeywoman Collection – Far left and far right dyed in the Ferrous Indigo vat. Third piece dyed with Marigold at 30% and Alum at 15%.
Shown: Maiwa's Journeywoman Collection – Left dyed with Madder at 50%. Centre dyed with Indigo. Right dyed with Cutch.
Shown: Maiwa's Journeywoman Collection – Left dyed with Logwood at 10%. Remaining pieces dyed with Indigo.
Shown: Maiwa's Journeywoman Collection – The first two pieces on the left are dyed with Madder at 50%. Second and third pieces dyed with Cutch. Far right dyed with Cochineal at 1%.
For a thorough introduction to natural dyes including procedures, mordants, and recipes, we have put together the Maiwa Guide to Natural Dyes which you can find on naturaldyes.ca.
Wild Silk Set - 5 Pieces
Heavyweight Organic Cotton Set - 5 Pieces
India Flint (author of Eco Colour - Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles) wearing the Journeywoman Collection eco-printed herself.
In the years since Charllotte Kwon of Maiwa and India Flint first encountered each other at a natural dye conference in Hyderabad, India, they have discovered a multitude of shared passions. Besides an ongoing interest in good food, peonies, and natural dyes, both choose to wear timeless and comfortable natural fibre clothing that can traverse cultures.
We all know the rule of dressing for a journey. “Wear something your grandmother would approve of.” It is a surprisingly good rule — regardless of whether you are going to the continent or the sub continent, the old world or the new one.
On any day you can find India or Charllotte wearing beautiful loose coats over dresses over skirts; their feet encased in boots, comfy flats or sandals, forever a shawl draped around their shoulders, accompanied by the tinkle and glint of their favourite trinkets. They blend into landscapes wherever they go, in a look that can take them from city street to forest path; from shoreline to meadow; from planting to harvest, poetically pacing the perimeter of the garden.
India and Charllotte have put their heads together and collaborated to design the Journeywoman Collection. It’s a timeless design that will suit you whether you’re an Earth Goddess or Wood Sprite. Lovingly produced in a range of fabrics including stalwart handwoven linen and luxurious handspun handwoven mulberry silk, the cloth is ready to be embellished with stitch, appliqué, print, or dye.
— Cut from cloth that carries memories of the makers —
These garments are delivered undyed and sewn with cotton thread. They are ready to receive your colour. They are a beautiful canvas awaiting the stitches and patterns that move your heart, or you can wear them as they are. Add extra pockets if you need, extend the length, embellish the edges. These simple timeless clothes will serve you well from here to there, wherever you go and whoever you are.
THE JOURNEYWOMAN'S SECOND SKIN
WORKSHOP
India's inspirations for dyeing, embellishing and personalizing
your Maiwa 'journeywoman' wardrobe.
The journeywoman slips her wayfinder smock over her wiseheart shift, shrugs on her wanderlust surcoat, wraps a shawl around her shoulders, whistles up a friendly wind and steps out into the whirled.
If the wind is fierce, she wears her weaver trousies underneath.
If the gales are arctic or the night is cold or she needs to escape without baggage, she can wear them all together…westward shimmy and weaver pants under a rustling wind-dancer skirt topped by wiseheart shift, wildflower camise and wayfinder smock; all enfolded by the wanderlust surcoat with a change of undergarments in a pocket and a toothbrush in another.
The journeywoman travels light. She dyes her clothes with leaves that she finds, mordants them in puddles (or the ocean), strengthens them in indigo.
This masterclass-in-your pocket guides you through personalizing this lifelong wardrobe.
The Journeywoman Collection of dyeable clothing
Shown: eco-printed by India Flint
For embellishing these natural garments we recommend natural fibres like our Honest Yarn Organic Linen in Cobweb weight - Natural Undyed and White Undyed.
To our U.S. customers – don't forget that the exchange rate works in your favour, it's like an extra discount.
Thursday, July 28, 2022
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