For over 2000 years, Japanese women in coastal villages would make their living diving into the ocean searching for oysters and abalone, a pearl producing sea snail. These ladies known as the Ama, literally meaning “women of the sea,†would dive into the Pacific waters for minutes at a time, often in freezing conditions. The […]
Category: environment
SAVE THE ARCTIC
We are excited to be giving 1% of June’s sales to Greenpeace’s SAVE THE ARCTIC campaign. In the last 30 years, we’ve lost as much as three-quarters of the floating sea ice cover at the top of the world. Protecting the ice means protecting us all. […]
Textile embroidery art from Africa
We are loving artist Sophie Standing’s colorful textile collages of animals. Standing lives and works in Kenya where she finds inspiration in African wildlife, particularly endangered species like elephants, lions, and rhinoceroses. To create her collages she first “paints or sketches on fabric and then draws from a vast collection of decorative fabrics acquired from […]
Amber Waves Farm // CSA
Here at Eskayel we try to keep things local, and that includes our food too! We have decided to join the CSA program at Amber Waves Farm in Amagansett and couldn’t be more pleased with our weekly produce. Many farms participate in CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) giving you the opportunity to receive local, seasonal, organic […]
Mission Blue // 1% for the Planet
We are excited to be giving 1% of our monthly profits from May to Mission Blue. After watching Sylvia Earle’s 2009 TED Prize wish we just knew we wanted to support this amazing program. […]
Stained at the Dumbo Loft
Last night a few of us went to Stained, this years Sewing Seeds fundraiser at the Dumbo Loft. Artist Cara Piazza was responsible for the curation of this sensory experience that allowed visitors to engage with natural dyes through the lens of experimentation, ritual and performance. We got to try a cool coffee scrub on […]
Sewing Seeds 2014 Fundraiser
Upcoming Sewing Seeds fundraiser on May 22, 7-11 PM, at the Dumbo Loft. Sewing Seeds is the main Textile Arts Center program solely focusing on public education and advocacy for the use and understanding of natural dyes in textiles, art, fashion, creativity. […]
NEW Underwater Prints // Project Aware
For the month of April we gave 1% of our sales to Project AWARE, an organization dedicated to the protection of our oceans and sea life. They work for secure protection for the world’s most vulnerable shark species and their Dive Against Debris program encourages scuba divers to clean harmful debris from underwater environments. In […]
Everyday is Earth Day at Eskayel
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Sea Shepherd // 1% for the Planet
Sea Sheperd Conservation Society works to protect dolphins, seals, bluefin tuna, sea lions, whales, sharks & our ocean’s coral reefs. […]
