Marta Bahillo knitwear for children. Matilde, Babáa´s young model, is wearing a Marta Bahillo oversize t-shirt made from organic Brazilian cotton.
We recently had the pleasure of a visit by Spanish knitwear designer Marta Bahillo, with her family including her daughter, Matilde (aged 3 and a half) who also acts as a model for Marta´s children´s collections.
We sent Matilde on an itinerary a mission to pick different plants in the garden. These included the eucalptus (Eucalptus cordata) planted about 4 years ago for Anna Champeney Estudio Textil as an experimental dyeplant.
This eucalptus is one of dozens of types of eucalptus but is not the common variety planted in many parts of Galicia over a century ago. The seed came from Chiltern Seeds by post and were interested in this species in particular as it is one of the varieties which can reputedly produce orange dyes.
Anna will be cropping the tree for the first time ever next week with a private dye pupil. Orange is not an easy colour to achieve with eucalptus and colours vary according to local growing conditions but whatever happens, the plant will produce good dye colours of some kind
You may remember a previous post about Marta Bahillo when she was learning to use natural dyes at natural dyes at Anna Champeney Estudio Textil in 2012.
She has been very busy since then launching her children´s collection which you can buy direct from the online shop Babáa. Organic cotton, Spanish wool and over-size design which mean the clothes will last longer. It´s a good chance to support quality Spanish design with a focus on environmentally-friendly working practices.
If you hurry you can enjoy summer sale prices before the autumn/winter collection 2013/14 comes in.
We hope to be able to report on future a an exciting future collaboration between Anna Champeney Estudio Textil and Marta Bahillo over the coming months and into 2014.
Marta Bahillo knitwear collections – What Matilde is wearing
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