Lots of friends who came to LUMINOUS have wanted to know how to make the flower crowns that so many of our performers wore, so here’s a little fun tutorial! The history of making crowns from natural materials can be found across cultures and centuries, steeped in tradition and symbolism, and has been a way of demarcating status. In Ancient Rome and Greece when they were made from myrtle, wool, as well as flowers and plants that had particular associations and healing properties. For Circle Creative Collective and the LUMINOUS Dreamers- flower crowns represent celebration of life and unique creative expression.

Do you have dingy old dish towels in your kitchen? Are you gearing up to chop a lot of onions this week?
Now’s a good chance to bring the two together and give them both new life! And it’s almost as easy as making tea.

Did you know that you can use onion skins, black walnut shells, avocado pits and other discarded items to create a fun and creative project that is simple enough for the whole family to do?! And what happens when you throw in rusty objects to add a more complex spectrum to your natural pallet? Natural plant dyeing is gentle on the planet, full of surprises, and doesn’t take a ton of time.

For years I kept mohair goats, sheared them and then sold the hair but then I finally wanted to learn to spin and weave. So I took a class and then just followed directions I found and made simple things––shawls, scarves. Mine is a very simple rectangular loom. I learned on a more complicated one with pedals but I preferred my more simple variety which was like a toy to that woman! But I wasn’t weaving because I was interested in patterns. I was interested in the mohair and the materials itself. I eventually wove in silk and other kinds of yarn.”