Who and what is “The Dyers' Child®”?
Jessica Färberkind is an artist, natural color maker and workshop leader – a full-hearted botanical alchemist. Her artistic works reflect the connection between nature, mankind and everything for which there are as yet no words. Her works are created from self-developed plant colors, “The Dyers‘ Child® INKs”, which she produces from 100 % natural raw materials in a process that is unique in the world. To give everyone the opportunity to create colors from their own lake pigments, Jessica has developed the “The Dyers’ Child® INK KIT” together with Soarce US. It’s available for order in Germany and the USA via this website. On Instagram you can find insights into the process and shared stories from those who bring the inks to life.
Produce your own brilliant and durable plant dyes – in a process that is unique in the world!
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Sustainable
Create brilliant colors with a sustainable painting medium made from 100% natural raw materials. If you like, even from the flowers in your own garden.
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Universal
Perfectly suited for art, textiles, print media, sustainable design and restoration. It combines tradition and innovation and offers unrivaled versatility in all industries.
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Revolutionary
In a globally unique process, you liquefy your paint pigments to produce vibrant plant colors that are durable at room temperature!
The Dyers' Child® products:
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Sold outThe Dyers' Child® Färberkind Refluid
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Natural pigments for The Dyers' Child® INK KIT
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The Dyers' Child® INK KIT TUTORIAL – password-protected & automatically included in the INK KIT
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Supporters of The Dyers' Child®:
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Supported by sevengardens
The Dyers' Child® products are a tool that you can use and develop individually for yourself and your field. They are a gateway to a creative journey where art, science and sustainability come together. You can become a researcher yourself, discover new things and change the world.
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Powered by Soarce
Soarce is revolutionizing the chemical industry with innovative, environmentally friendly processes that convert biomass into powerful, natural chemicals. From textiles to paints and coatings, Soarce's solutions replace toxic petrochemicals, reduce waste and simplify production. Soarce offers a sustainable path to the future for industries worldwide.
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Explored & trusted by the network
From the very beginning, The Dyers' Child® INK KIT has been part of a collaborative discovery process. Members of the sevengardens network and colorists in the US and Europe have used it in a variety of ways – on a wide range of materials, with their own pigments, techniques and ideas. Their results are visible here: as inspiration, as authenticity, as living proof of what is possible!
These people are already working with the INK KIT:
Are you already working and experimenting with our INK-KIT colors and would like to share your results with us?
Then please feel free to contact us.
Here you can find out everything about the collaboration with Soarce:
Interview with Soarce
Part 1 of 4
Mason Mincey and Jessica Färberkind celebrate the upcoming launch of "The Dyers' Child® INK KIT" powered by Soarce in collaboration with sevengardens!
The interview gives exciting insights into the development process and the joint work on a surprisingly versatile product for dyers.
Interview with Soarce
Part 2 of 4
Interview with Soarce
Part 3 of 4
Interview with Soarce
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The story behind The Dyers' Child® – Colors from nature
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Unique formula
What makes these paints special is not only their brilliance, stability and versatility, but also their origin: they are made from 100 % renewable raw materials. The formulas combine the ancient craft of pigment production with a completely new ecological process - an interplay of tradition, science, art and alchemy.
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The first impulse
The impetus for the development came from the USA in 2024: Florida-based Soarce, a company dedicated to the sustainable transformation of the textile industry, discovered that one of its liquids made from fruit and vegetables reacted unexpectedly with natural dyes. In order to understand the phenomenon, its founders sought contact with dyers worldwide and also wrote to Jessica.
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How the method came about
At the sevengardens Living Lab in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, she began experimenting and after a few weeks discovered something unexpected and astonishing: this liquid was able to liquefy her own plant pigments. From this, she developed a process that anyone in the world can use to produce a whole range of colors themselves using simple means and their own garden, flowers from the wayside, tree bark or various vegetables.
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Continuous research
Since then, Jessica has been continuously researching the further development and almost unlimited application possibilities of these colors. The sevengardens Living Lab is located on the grounds of Hof Emschermündung in Dinslaken, where there is also a paradisiacal dye garden. The site is also home to the headquarters of the worldwide, UNESCO-certified sevengardens network, which is dedicated to education in the field of natural dyeing.
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Growing community
Jessica now trains people in the method and works closely with a growing network of dyers who share their experiences on Instagram and regularly exchange ideas and results. In this way, an artistic experiment has evolved into an open, vibrant movement – driven by creativity, sustainability and the desire for a colorful future in harmony with nature.
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Technical basis
In technical terms, “The Dyers' Child®” inks are based on so-called lake pigments – the most stable form of plant-based color, as used by ancient masters. These solids were long regarded as color-stable but not luminous. Thanks to Jessica's newly developed process, the original light from the plant is returned to the pigment. The result is a “refluid”, a light-containing aggregate state that is unique in the world and opens up completely new possibilities for color design.
