Sashoonya is a textile art and design company that creates apparel, accessories, and home goods using local materials and dyes derived from our natural surroundings in New England.
By growing our own dye gardens, recovering and sustaining the disappearing traditions and knowledge of natural colors, and actively operating and advocating within our local farm-to-fiber+fashion community we generate gratifying, sustainable processes and products for ecosystems and people.

Our textile goods, infused with the colors and the essence of the landscapes we cherish, are talismans and symbols of a world that prospers through care and connectivity. Our belief is that our identities are interlinked with our natural world, and that textiles are an important mechanism for communicating and nurturing this connection.

Process

Working with hand-weaving, natural dyeing, and eco-printing techniques, Sashoonya crafts silk scarves, wall hangings, and clothing. We never employ toxic chemicals in our art. We dye our textiles with home-grown plant extracts, and carefully foraged macro-algae, (seaweed). We never use pesticides, herbicides, or synthetic fertilizer on our plants, only compost. Of course we compost all of our studio dye waste as well, and make sure to leave plenty of resources for other creatures in our foraging and growing practice.

Our color sources include indigo, marigold, goldenrod, sumac, avocado pits, and bladderwrack seaweed. Our wool and alpaca yarns are sourced from local farms while we experiment with growing our own linen fiber, (which we currently source from outside of the USA). We work with artisans in the Providence migrant and refugee community to perpetuate the art of hand weaving, a disappearing cultural heritage.

“We believe that beauty is a process, not only a product, and ours is one based on reciprocity with our natural environment.”— Sasha Azbel, Sashoonya Founder