Jun 13, 2018
The Mother of all Herbs.
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The Mother of all Herbs.
✦ I R O N ✦ ✺ Iron is a two-process color. White fabric is first dyed yellow with myrobalan, and then washed with an iron solution. The color deepens before your eyes from yellow into a cool metal grey as it meets its first few breaths of air. ✺ Cooking up this color was a collaborative effort between us and our team in Bagru, powered by the traditional knowledge and trade of the Chhipa, a Rajasthani caste of dyers and printers. ✺ "Iron" defies the notion that grey is dull or boring! Both in its vibrant appearance, and the process of concocting it.
✦ I R O N ✦ ✺ Iron is a two-process color. White fabric is first dyed yellow with myrobalan, and then washed with an iron solution. The color deepens before your eyes from yellow into a cool metal grey as it meets its first few breaths of air. ✺ Cooking up this color was a collaborative effort between us and our team in Bagru, powered by the traditional knowledge and trade of the Chhipa, a Rajasthani caste of dyers and printers. ✺ "Iron" defies the notion that grey is dull or boring! Both in its vibrant appearance, and the process of concocting it.
✦ I N D I G O ✦ ✺ Indigo is one of the oldest dyes in human civilization! India has been using it since 5000 BC, and the tried and tested methods, largely powered by human strength, have not changed much since then. ✺The process of making Indigo dye is zero waste - the leftover leaves are used as a bio-fertilizer. ✺ Dyeing with Indigo is an interesting and alchemic process. It is a non-soluable dye that requires specific water pH and no oxygen - thus, the indigo vat is very deep (like, 15 feet!), frothy, fragrant, and ominous. When the fibers are dipped in this murky blue wonder just once, they reveal to the light in a teal-green shade that transforms with its first breath to that famous deep blue hue that has captured the world throughout history.
Pictured here: The Jam unveiling an indigo dipped hemp dress in Bagru...
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✺ " THE FROCK " ✺
₪ STYLE ₪
✺ Free Size Frock Dress ✺Handwoven Nepali Hemp Cotton ✺ Naturally Dyed with Harda ✺ Mud-Resist Print Design ✺ One-of-a-Kind ☯ Made to be easy. Always cute. All natural. High quality comfort. Like your favorite big T Shirt, but more fun. May cause a mood boost, a dancing spirit, or the urge to spin at any time. Why ? To remember we can always keep calm & remain playful with whatever life tosses our way.
₪ COLOR & PRINT ₪
☯ We create all natural plant-based hues that radiate with medicinal earth magic. The Jam is the palette for an effortless thrive - feel good and gorgeous anytime / always shades that uplift the soul and soothe the senses.
DYED WITH...
✦ HARDA / MYROBALAN ✦
✺ Harda is used internally and externally in Ayurvedic medicine for a host of ailments ranging from rheumatism and ulcers, to constipation and the common cough. ✺It’s ANTI - inflammatory, ulcerogenic, oxidant, bacterial, fungal, carcinogenic, viral, aging, arthritic, microbial, pyretic. & boasts an astringent quality that aids in cleansing the body of toxins ✺ Often referred to as the “mother of all herbs," Harda is also essential to the natural dyeing processes of Bagru, Rajasthan, producing an earthy shade of yellow on it's own, and used for under/over-dyeing in the concoction of a host of other hues.
PRINTED WITH...
✦ DABU / MUD RESIST PRINT ✦
✺ We love Dabu (Rajasthani mud resist printing) because it is a soft, sweet, slow, sustainable process that works with the earth to produce timeless, naturally radiant, unique designs using a mixture of river clay, tree gum, limestone, and rice husk/rotten wheat.
✺ After printing with this mixture, designs are covered in saw dust dry in the Rajasthani sun for 24 hours! The arid desert environment plays such a huge role in this craft, making it unique to this region.
✺ After traveling in Rajasthan and learning about India’s rich history of natural textile design, we are so proud to share and incorporate dabu in our Jam. This process encapsulates what we are ultimately all about - living with the Earth as a dance both born of and constantly creating/radiating natural beauty!
₪ STORY ₪
✺ Co-founded by Jackie Angelo & Allyson Forrest, two lightweight nomadic-Bay Area-native-creatives from the opposite ends of the zodiac, currently crafting while traveling in India, The Jam is a crazy sweet amalgamation of our passions, skills, experiences, and collaborations.
✺ We currently design, dye, print, and produce our clothing in Rajasthan, India. As an artisan hub of handicrafts, natural dyeing, and block printing, this place has been a great teacher, inspiration, and source of energy in our travels, body mind and spirit, and we are so happy to share the creations born of this connection.
✺ The Jam is the remedy - the all day, every day, work and play, full power, second skin, throw it on to feel good classics. Inspired by balance and crafted from earth magic, we design and collaborate to creat plant based textiles for effortless individuality.
₪ CONNECT WITH US ₪
HERE or...
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Reposted from @FruitsandSeeds Instagram ~
“🌿✨🌏🌍🌎✨🌿 . “Yasya maya na asti, tassa mata Haritaki” was one of the first things the doctor wrote on the board when we began studying Ayurvedic herbology sometime in July. “Who doesn’t have a mother, Haritaki is their mother” 😂 . ✨ Haritaki/Harda/Myrobalan/Terminalia Chebula (etc) is rightly referred to as the mother of herbs for its vast therapeutic uses and benefits to health. Consumed internally & externally for everything from rheumatism, tonsillitis, ulcers, skin infections and chronic candidiasis to fever, headache, constipation, bleeding gums , lice, common cough, and more. Love you up and cure it all ~ like a mama would. 💕 . ✨ Recently, I found myself in Bagru, Rajasthan, with @bagrutextiles, almost 800km from this Ayurvedic doctor’s office, surrounded by a creative culture of handmade textiles where Harda is used not only medicinally, but also as a dye, mordant, and foundational ingredient to creating a palette of natural colors. ahhhh sweet power and beauty and connectedness ... 😍life. Giving myself to gratitude . . ✨ Fabric first immersed in the golden yellow dye fades to a brilliant grey when washed with iron, and deepens to rich shade of black from a mixture of horse shoes and jaggery. . ✨ This alchemy ! The glorious roots. And it is just as alive as the colors it yields, vibrating with the earth magic containing the capacity and strength to heal us all 🌿 if we listen ... . ✨ Be sure to check out @_wearethejam for more about these hues, and our journey with natural textiles. 💋💋💋💦🌱🙃 . . ✨”
One of our All Day Every Day hoodies in process...
🌞✨ Dabu requires that each piece dries completely in the sun before meeting the vat. This hoodie was mud resist printed, dried in the sun, dipped in harda, dried again, and then soaked in a solution of jaggery and horse shoes to produce our all natural black hue, cauldron. It’s a lengthy process, requiring lots of love- special thanks to Bagru Textiles for teaching us about this magic!