Dash-Dye & Design House · Grand Rapids, MI
More joy is possible.
Ready to Wear Pieces
Take the color home
One-of-a-kind pieces, already dyed, ready to reflect your joy!
Dance Top
A featherlight, cropped women’s top made to move. Put it on and you’ll want to dance.
Dance Denim
Lightweight stretch denim with no front and no back. Pull them on either way and go dance.
Dance Vest
An extra-long plush terry vest with an eyelash fringe edge, made for movement on the go.
Wild Rag
One yard of silky rayon challis that ties onto anything. Where every look starts, in a single knot.
In the Studio
Pick your way in
There’s more than one way to start. Every one of them begins with your hands in color. Bring your own pieces or choose blanks at the studio.
Personal Dye Session
$50 · 1 hr. One-on-one with Andrea: a quick color read and 3 items dyed.
Group Dye Session
$50 · 1.5 hrs. Up to 6 people, kid-friendly. Includes 3 items dyed. Extra pieces
A Color Revival
$150 · 3 hrs. In-depth color analysis, a closet edit, 6 items dyed as a
Pigment, water, wind.
How Dash-Dyeing Works
You have to feel it to know it.
Color isn’t something you pick off a screen. Your body responds before your mind does. Powdered pigment, damp fabric, a little mist. No tying, no buckets, no mistakes, only discoveries. See what colors your body responds to.
Made to Feel Good
Wear what feels good.
Fewer seams. No sewn-in tags. Soft, flowing rayon and generous pieces of fabric you can wrap, drape and tie your way. Every sensory detail comes from my own body, because the way something feels can matter as much as the way it looks.
Your body. Your colors. Your comfort. Your expression.
Ready to Dash
150 Activated Dyes
Grab activated dyes and make your own piece of art that reflects your joy!
001 Bubble Gum
Bubble Gum is red lifted with so much white it turns playful: a light, cool
003 Powder Pink
Powder Pink is a dusty, muted rose, as sweet as powdered candy. Graying a pink
004 Pomegranate
Pomegranate is a deep, warm red with a whisper of orange: ripe, juicy and alive.
Color is better shared.
For Your Group
One palette. Everyone’s spin.
Bring dash-dyeing to your people: in my studio for up to six, at your place where everyone pays their own way, or as a special event you host, from team days to retired uniforms revived in your palette. Every person dashes their own pattern. Unified, never identical.
Dash-Dye for Businesses
Team building, customer appreciation, pop-ups and retired uniforms. Three ways to bring dash-dyeing to your
Dash-Dye for Educators
Classrooms, orientations, clubs and campus events. Three ways to bring color science and hands-on dyeing
Dash-Dye for Families
Kid-friendly dye days, family reunions and matching-but-not-identical shirts. Three ways to dash-dye as a family
Dash-Dye for Friends
Birthdays, bachelorettes, girls’ days and backyard hangs. Three ways to dash-dye with your friends, in
From The Portraits
Every color is someone's story!
Dai as the Wood Duck at Reeds Lake: emerald, midnight blue and bronze. A woman quietly authoring whatever comes next.
Emmy as the European Starling: Raven Black and Imperial Purple, a bird that shimmers when the light finds it. So does she.
Jules as the Crow at Millennium Park: all black, steady, alert and playful. Their intelligence and humor finally get the spotlight.
Color Unlocks Us
Color Resources
Learn the language of color
Resources and ideas that will help you understand your favorite colors better!
Color Frequencies
What color actually is: light at different frequencies, translated by your eyes and brain. The visible spectrum in
Color Families
Color meanings for all ten color families, from red to gray: the history, the science and the feeling
Undertone
Warm, cool, neutral or olive? How color temperature works, simple tests to find your skin’s undertone and the
Color Value
Hues, tints, tones and shades explained: how adding white, gray or black changes a color’s value and chroma,