dìẹ̀dìẹ̀: slow bioregional textiles 

raw harvest + educulture + local production + material poeisis

dìẹ̀dìẹ̀ is slow, healing, earth work. we are a community-scale, cooperative textile farm and micro mill creating a local option for wholesale plant-based fiber and dye materials. We are incubating our vision on collectively-owned BIPoC land in the Central Piedmont region of North Carolina. We provide quality raw and processed materials to our bioregion and beyond. dìẹ̀dìẹ̀ means “slow,” “gradual,” “little by little” in our native language - Yorùbá. dìẹ̀dìẹ̀ animates the core spirit and ethic of our work.

first flax blooms of the szn

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sun drying raw flax

sun drying raw flax

dìẹ̀dìẹ̀ is also a site of ancestral reverence and material activism. We value regenerative land care, pre-industrial African and Indigenous art ways, spiritual practices, cultural expressions, ecological and healing wisdoms. Our work is part of a global fibershed movement to repair our planet by addressing the historical and present day harms of the textile industry. similar to a watershed or a foodshed, a fibershed is about tracing where we source the labor and materials for clothes and utility goods.

Read more about our core values and join us as we participate in building our resilient, regenerative cloth and materials futures.

graphic: soil to soil life cycle fibershed.org.

book us for natural textile work and playshops!

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book us for natural textile work and playshops! 〰️

urth apprentice harvesting coreopsis tinctoria flowers for dye

harvesting raw indigo

hear some of our reflections from our 2023 winter residency at gistyarn.

  • diédìé is grateful to join the initiatory cohort of Black Fiber Fund alongside other dynamic Black textile visionaries.

    Read more here: https://www.fibersfund.com/bfc

glossary of terms

  • a geographic region and its network of fiber flows that connect farmers, fiber producers, processers, and consumers.

  • resilient responses to environmental changes that recognize need to degrow economy in order to survive on earth

  • a pace for healing to become systemic.

  • the core of any industrial manufacturing cycle because it deals with processing raw material.

  • A term coined by Miriam Ribul to define contemporary exploration, cross-disciplinary DIY practices for low-tech approaches in the production and design of materials