Perched on the cliffs, Garance & Rhubarb's small Normandy artisan workshop explores and enhances ancestral know-how by offering unique yarns and creations, naturally hand-dyed with plants or insects, in very limited series. Our lively, vibrant colors will awaken the creativity of knitters, crocheters and embroiderers looking for a more responsible, ethical and sustainable product.

Discover the 4 seasons of Normandy
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Dyeing and creating

Garance's dips, Rhubarb's inventions

Les gnomes Garance et Rhubarb dans leur atelier : potions mijotées et pelote enchantée

Dyes of yarns and fabrics.

Textile prints with pad or screen printing frame.

Fine Arts products: inks, pigments and watercolors.

Creations: crochet, sewing, embroidery…

The know-how of the workshop

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Do-it-yourself satisfaction with 100% handmade products

All stages of coloring the various textile fibers (yarns and fabrics) are carried out entirely by hand: preparation of the fibers, washing, mordanting, preparation of dye baths (decoction, indigo vat), fiber cooking, rinsing, drying, putting into skeins or ball cakes, labeling, packaging, etc.

Yarns are at the center of our production, whether they are offered simply in skeins and balls, or integrated into our creative kits. Faced with the wealth of possibilities for combinations between types of fibers and natural dyes, our curiosity pushes us to experiment with numerous combinations.

We particularly like wool, whether it is made from the fleeces of various breeds of sheep or whether it comes from more surprising and distant animals: down from Mongolian yaks or desert camels from Gobi, baby llamas and alpacas from the Andean Altiplano, young “angora” goats from the South African highlands.

Thirsty for discoveries, we do not leave other fibers aside. The natural dye is delicate on linen produced in the north-west of France, elegant on ethical cotton from Asian plantations, precious on Indian silk.

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Our diverse knowledge and skills give us a range of creative possibilities

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Beyond dyes…

– Creation and manufacturing of DIY kits.
– Invention of patterns up to textile printing methods.
– Development of Collections linked to the discovery of new cultures and heritage during travel.
– Development of products for artists.
– Illustrations by Garance & Rhubarb.
– Packaging design.

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Natural dyeing requires patience, rigor, know-how, humility and time

Garance et Rhubarb dessinent les sens : fil de laine reliant oreille, œil, main, nez et bouche

Listen to nature, observe shapes and colors, touch raw materials, smell the various scents, delight in simple things.

Gardening

While we wait for it to grow, Rhubarb takes a little nap...

Les rêves de Garance observés par Rhubarb : chat joueur et fleurs multicolores

Expand the color palette.

Produce part of the dye material used.

Offer small quantities of plants or dye kits for sale.

… Upcoming project…

Production et culture de variétés tinctoriales dans notre jardin arboré

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The Normandy landscapes fascinate with the diversity of their reliefs and the particular luminous atmospheres that emerge from them. Each season features a palette of refreshing, contrasting, lively or soft tones that the vagaries of time modify as they wish, thus creating living and vibrant colors with infinite nuances. It is therefore not surprising that great artists have found in these places an exhilarating source of exploration and experimentation.

In spring, the still shy sun reveals shades of blue-gray as it caresses the surface of the waters. The white chalk of the cliffs contrasts with the fresh grass covered in dew. The vegetation comes back to life. In the gardens, a multitude of colors, shapes and scents appear. In orchards, fruit trees are adorned with small white and pink flowers. The bright yellow of the rapeseed fields takes on a whole new dimension when the stormy sky offers a powerful palette of colorful grays before darkening. The storm is near, the thunder rumbles and resonates. A curtain of rain falls on the landscape, the shades are more muted, duller.

Summer is approaching, the plains become purplish-blue from the flax, sometimes red from the poppies, then blond from the wheat. In the distance, the green pastures come alive with small black, white and mahogany shapes. On the beaches, the sun at its zenith is reflected on a sea that is sometimes oily, sometimes choppy, highlighting deep or milky blues. As the sun sets, the sky takes on intense colors playing on gradients.

The apple trees reveal the subtle hues of their fruits before the arrival of autumn when the flamboyant forests show off their warm colors. The trees take on their red dress punctuated with yellow, orange, red and brown. The greens gradually fade away. The morning mist floats above the valleys revealing a mysterious, almost mystical landscape.

Poetic grays invade winter. In the early morning, the crystallized waters and frozen landscapes with softened colors wait to be delicately awakened by the sun's rays. Sometimes the sky turns completely white, the air is fresh and the atmosphere is special. Snowflakes swirl. When the snow becomes more intense, it hides the roofs of half-timbered houses and covers nature with a powdery coat. 

The beginnings of the picture are there, before our eyes...The sheep which graze peacefully in the pastures, a rich and fertile land which gives life to an abundant and generous nature, the precious abundant and regular rainwater, and a magician light which transforms colors in an instant, revealing subtle nuances, revealing unsuspected hues.