2018
North Fork 53 Retreat & Tea
Nehalem Oregon
Inaugural Indigofest
For our first year we enthusiastically crammed as much as possible into one day. From fresh leaf processing, and learning the mysteries of vat dying, to creating the first 100% local vat here on the Oregon Coast using salal berries. A sweet and intimate event.
Read about our local salal vat in the article Iris wrote for the Turkey Red Journal HERE.
Gaultheria shallon -Salal, berries supplied the reducing agent in the Coastal Vat
Persicaria tinctoria - Japanese Indigo -the star of the show
Willapa Bay oysters were cooked up to create the lime for the Coastal Vat