I am excited to introduce you to the Earthues Website. Here you will be able to browse and purchase from the current list of Earthues products.

This is how it all began: Michele Wipplinger of Seattle, Washington began sharing her love of color and natural dyes when she returned in 1979 from her year-long journey with her husband, Andro Wipplinger, and their two-year old son to Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, where she interacted with and observed the natural dye practices still employed by the indigenous people of those countries in the fabrication of their handwoven clothing. Michele immediately began teaching natural dyeing workshops around the USA and in the basement of her Seattle home. In 1994 Michele opened her Earthues studio in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood and began selling natural dyes and natural dye extracts to her students and several of the remaining textile dye houses in the USA.

Michele and Andro closed the Ballard studio in 2014 due to Michele’s dementia and continued to operate the natural dye portion of the business from their home. Michele passed away in February 2020. Andro and his youngest son, Misha, continue to operate Earthues from their shared home in Seattle.