Lucila Kenny

Tex­ti­le desi­gner Luci­la Ken­ny makes uni­que hand-dyed scar­ves in her Natu­ral Dye­ing Stu­dio in Ams­ter­dam West. She coll­ects rain­wa­ter for pain­ting, from which 80 per­cent is reu­sed for the next dye bath. This way she keeps the ​‘water foot­print’ as small as possible!

Luci­la col­la­bo­ra­tes with other natu­ral dye­ing experts on inspi­ring stu­dies such as the Pain­ting Plants rese­arch pro­ject, which focus­ses on ​“How to make paint or ink from plants, and how to make them usable for dif­fe­rent prin­ting techniques”. 

Luci­la regu­lar­ly explo­res urban natu­re in search of new color pig­ments. And with more than 400,000 trees, Ams­ter­dam is a per­fect place to hunt for color. She not only har­ve­sts from trees but uses all kinds of resi­dues from natu­re. In her out­stan­ding color palet­te you will find tex­ti­les that are dyed with natu­re from West. From fine­ly chop­ped elms gro­wing on the Stad­hou­der­ska­de, plants from the Wes­ter­park, plant was­te from muni­ci­pal gar­den­ers or from the green are­as next to the highway.

For more infor­ma­ti­on about work­shops, you can reach her by email (hello@​lucilakenny.​com) and Insta­gram: www​.insta​gram​.com/​l​u​c​i​l​a​.​kenny