Urchin Dye a Silk Sleep Set 5.11 (Mother's Day)
Enhance your beauty sleep by naturally dyeing a silk pillowcase, eyemask, and scrunchie. You’ll learn how to create a dreamy, peachy-pink dye sourced from the overpopulation of purple sea urchins. Deepen your connection to nature on a tide pool tour led by urchin extraordinaires Maddie Armstrong and Keira Monuki. This unforgettable experience makes the perfect gift for ocean-loving moms who appreciate beauty and sustainability.
Your attendance is helping to thin the overpopulation of purple urchins and restore California kelp forests, so thank you.
Mother’s Day, Sunday, 5.11 from 3:00 – 6:00 pm in the Redwood Room at The Sea Ranch Lodge
What’s included:
~ Ingredients for a half-gallon sea urchin dye bath
~ One 14” silk pillowcase with zipper
~ One silk eyemask (one size fits all)
~ One silk scrunchie (one size fits all)
~ Two silk squares
~ One urchin shell (also known as a test)
(optional) You are welcome to bring any silk or wool items from home, like yarn, that you wish to dye. If there is enough dye left over, you’re welcome to use it.
Environmentalist Bios
Maddie Armstrong is a PhD student at UC Davis who is researching the impacts of urban pollution on marine invertebrates. She uses the Pacific purple sea urchin as a model organism in her studies at the Bodega Marine Laboratory.
Keira Monuki is a PhD student at the Bodega Marine Laboratory studying marine invertebrates. Her research focuses mostly on snails and anemones and how humans are affecting their geographic distributions.
Please review our cancellation policy.
Photos by Mei-Li Rastani
Enhance your beauty sleep by naturally dyeing a silk pillowcase, eyemask, and scrunchie. You’ll learn how to create a dreamy, peachy-pink dye sourced from the overpopulation of purple sea urchins. Deepen your connection to nature on a tide pool tour led by urchin extraordinaires Maddie Armstrong and Keira Monuki. This unforgettable experience makes the perfect gift for ocean-loving moms who appreciate beauty and sustainability.
Your attendance is helping to thin the overpopulation of purple urchins and restore California kelp forests, so thank you.
Mother’s Day, Sunday, 5.11 from 3:00 – 6:00 pm in the Redwood Room at The Sea Ranch Lodge
What’s included:
~ Ingredients for a half-gallon sea urchin dye bath
~ One 14” silk pillowcase with zipper
~ One silk eyemask (one size fits all)
~ One silk scrunchie (one size fits all)
~ Two silk squares
~ One urchin shell (also known as a test)
(optional) You are welcome to bring any silk or wool items from home, like yarn, that you wish to dye. If there is enough dye left over, you’re welcome to use it.
Environmentalist Bios
Maddie Armstrong is a PhD student at UC Davis who is researching the impacts of urban pollution on marine invertebrates. She uses the Pacific purple sea urchin as a model organism in her studies at the Bodega Marine Laboratory.
Keira Monuki is a PhD student at the Bodega Marine Laboratory studying marine invertebrates. Her research focuses mostly on snails and anemones and how humans are affecting their geographic distributions.
Please review our cancellation policy.
Photos by Mei-Li Rastani
Enhance your beauty sleep by naturally dyeing a silk pillowcase, eyemask, and scrunchie. You’ll learn how to create a dreamy, peachy-pink dye sourced from the overpopulation of purple sea urchins. Deepen your connection to nature on a tide pool tour led by urchin extraordinaires Maddie Armstrong and Keira Monuki. This unforgettable experience makes the perfect gift for ocean-loving moms who appreciate beauty and sustainability.
Your attendance is helping to thin the overpopulation of purple urchins and restore California kelp forests, so thank you.
Mother’s Day, Sunday, 5.11 from 3:00 – 6:00 pm in the Redwood Room at The Sea Ranch Lodge
What’s included:
~ Ingredients for a half-gallon sea urchin dye bath
~ One 14” silk pillowcase with zipper
~ One silk eyemask (one size fits all)
~ One silk scrunchie (one size fits all)
~ Two silk squares
~ One urchin shell (also known as a test)
(optional) You are welcome to bring any silk or wool items from home, like yarn, that you wish to dye. If there is enough dye left over, you’re welcome to use it.
Environmentalist Bios
Maddie Armstrong is a PhD student at UC Davis who is researching the impacts of urban pollution on marine invertebrates. She uses the Pacific purple sea urchin as a model organism in her studies at the Bodega Marine Laboratory.
Keira Monuki is a PhD student at the Bodega Marine Laboratory studying marine invertebrates. Her research focuses mostly on snails and anemones and how humans are affecting their geographic distributions.
Please review our cancellation policy.
Photos by Mei-Li Rastani