About
Every Yuyo Hues piece is botanical printed using just the pigments and tannins found in leaves and flowers. No inks are added; all the colors and patterns proceeds from natural materials, including seeds, roots, leaves, bark, flowers.
This process is entirely eco-friendly, as the ingredients used come from nature and return to it without creating damage.
Each print is unique and one-of-a-kind; it is a small slice of forest or garden for you to wear.
Enjoy!
Yuyo Hues. Yuyo: [iu-io] noun: from the Quechua: medicinal herb/ herb. In Argentina we use this word to say weed/ unwanted weed/grass. Hues: /:hyooz/ English. noun plural noun: Hues. color or shade.
Yuyo Hues was founded in 2022 by textile artist Evangelina Don as a frame for her plant dye/botanical prints exploration and soft goods small production.
Evangelina was born and raised in Argentina and brings with her a sewing tradition, ”there was always a sewing machine around and my mom and two grandmas were able to sew their own clothes and to fix them”. She learned to sew at early age sewing dresses for her dolls.
She studied Visuals Arts in College and start to “draw with fabric” in 2005.
since then she’d been exploring the fascinating textile world, and the vast roads to work with.
In 2015 looking for sources to learn about natural dyes, she tipped over a Eco printed fabric and got absolutely amazed, that’s when Evangelina start diving into the natural dyes alchemy and still does.