The Botanical Silk Skirt
Wow, what a wonderful few weeks it has been over at Made My Wardrobe HQ. The open studios we had in the Bristol Textile Quarter was incredible! Over a hundred people popped by to see what we are up to and chat about how we can keep the fashion and textile industry alive in Bristol. It made me think I should spice things up on Made My Wardrobe with some collaborations! So here is the first of those...
Botanical Inks is an Bristol based natural dye company. They run beautiful workshops teaching people to forage for local colour- producing plants and use a variety of non-toxic dye and print processes to colour locally grown and woven wool and organic peace silk. Babs Behan who is the brains behind the operation has been running evening workshops in our studio which look like such fun! So, having seen the beautiful fabrics she can make, I asked her if she had any scraps I could buy. She produced this beautiful piece of silk, dyed using cornflowers, rose petals and madder. I decided to drape it with some plain grey silk to create this gathered skirt. Possibly my favourite garment to date, thanks Botanical Inks!