welcome to my world of
printing from
THE GARDEN
Flora Obscura is a botanical lifestyle brand offering silk pillowcases, plant-dyed silk robes, and immersive natural dye education. Founded by textile artist and author Alison Kelly, creator of Printing from the Garden, the studio blends botanical printing, natural dyeing, and plant-based beauty into thoughtfully crafted pieces designed to elevate everyday ritual.
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Silk Velvet Pillows make for an eye-catching design element throughout the home— we see these shimmering editions as a piece of functional artwork made to bring light and color therapy to your interior world. This category is regularly updated with new pieces and color-ways. We are currently featuring a blooming garden of color and prints derived solely from flowers.
This is a one of a kind item has been dyed with madder root for a glistening rosy hue and botanically contact-printed with roses.
Material: Silk velvet and flowers
Sizes: 18” x 18” | 20” x 20”
Insert: Insert comes with purchase and price reflects shipping cost.
Timing: Please allow up to 14 days to receive your items. If you would like it sooner please let us know.
Dynamic and singular, Flora Obscura’s one-of-a-kind botanical textiles are transformed into whimsical apparel and home goods, all strategically cut from zero-waste design templates. The line’s timeless rectangular silhouettes are an ideal template for displaying the harmony and discord of each uniquely flower-dyed fabric.
Atelier Archive III: Bundle Dyeing— The Flora Obscura Method
Discover the magic of bundle dyeing as flowers and leaves imprint their color and form directly onto fabric. In this video workshop, you'll learn the Flora Obscura method for creating richly layered botanical textiles using fresh and dried botanicals, natural fibers, and steam.
No sewing is required. Simply arrive with a length of fabric and a curiosity for the natural world.
Order a signed copy of Printing from the Garden, my comprehensive botanical printing book and natural dyeing guide.
Books ordered now will ship June 8th— thank you for your patience. This beautifully illustrated eco printing book teaches how to create one-of-a-kind prints using flowers and leaves, featuring step-by-step instruction and a compendium of 30 plants documenting their stunning effects on fabric and paper.
Experience the luxury of silk pillowcases naturally dyed with botanicals.
Each pillowcase is crafted from premium mulberry silk and hand-dyed using slow, sustainable plant-based methods. The result is a one-of-a-kind piece infused with rich, living color from flowers, leaves, and roots.
JOIN THE Flora Obscura ATELIER
a monthly studio subscription:
The Flora Obscura Atelier is a monthly workshop series expanding on the technqiues in Printing from the Garden and further exploring natural dyeing, botanical printing, and beginner-friendly sewing skills. Held in an intimate live studio setting, each session builds on the last—guiding you from foundational techniques to expressive, wearable textiles.
FREE GUIDE TO SCOURING, MORDANTING
AND USING NATURAL DYES
ATELIER ARCHIVES: mini workshopS
If you're drawn to a particular project or technique but aren't ready to commit to the full Atelier series, select workshops will also be available as standalone à la carte classes, allowing you to study individual themes as they are released.
Atelier Archive I: The Woodland Shawl— A dark botanical silk velvet study.
In this workshop, you'll learn how to combine ecoprinting and natural dye techniques to create a dramatic textile infused with the beauty of fresh leaves and flowers. You’ll capture the delicate verdant impressions in sumptuous silk velvet, while a dark logwood carrier blanket provides depth, contrast, and atmosphere.
No sewing is required. Simply arrive with a length of fabric and a curiosity for the natural world.
Say hello to my first sewing pattern! The Flora Obscura Kaftan: Edition One is a paperless sewing pattern that transforms simple lengths of fabric into an elegant, wearable silhouette. Designed with simplicity in mind, this project requires only straight cuts and straight seams, making it an approachable introduction to garment sewing.
Custom Sizing— The Flora Obscura Kaftan is drafted directly from your own measurements using a simple formula. Rather than conforming to standard sizing, each piece is shaped around your unique proportions, resulting in a garment that feels effortless, comfortable, and distinctly your own.
Low-to-No-Waste Construction— This is a patternless sewing project designed to honor both fabric and maker. No paper patterns are required—nothing to print, tape, or cut out before you begin. The cutting layouts are designed maximize fabric usage and minimize waste.
Atelier Archive III: Bundle Dyeing— The Flora Obscura Method
Discover the magic of bundle dyeing as flowers and leaves imprint their color and form directly onto fabric. In this video workshop, you'll learn the Flora Obscura method for creating richly layered botanical textiles using fresh and dried botanicals, natural fibers, and steam.
No sewing is required. Simply arrive with a length of fabric and a curiosity for the natural world.
ApothEcary
SAY HELLO TO Vita Flora— The secret life of plants
Botanical Serums, Crèmes, Mists & Fragrance
Vita Flora is an extension of Flora Obscura and reflects founder Alison’s enduring fascination with botanicals. Working with flowers, roots, and leaves to print and dye textiles revealed how plants impart color, depth, and spirit—an understanding that has naturally evolved into formulating clean, organic botanical skincare and fragrance.
Each serum, crème, hydrosol, and fragrance is hand-mixed in small batches with thoughtfully sourced organic ingredients, guided by the same reverence for nature, process, and restraint. Rooted in herbal tradition and refined through modern formulation, these offerings are designed to deeply nourish the skin and soul and elevate daily ritual.
Featured Products
Moonwash Cleansing Oil is a gentle, botanical oil cleanser crafted with neroli, frankincense, jasmine and bergamot to purify the skin while preserving its natural moisture barrier. Built on a base of organic seed oils of apricot, antioxidant-rich sea buckthorn and peach, this silky formula dissolves makeup, sunscreen, and impurities without stripping or clogging pores.
FOR ALL SKIN TYPES AND GENDERS | Especially beneficial for sensitive, reactive, dry, dull, or mature skin.
Serum pump top 60 mL. | 2.02 oz.
Dewveil is pure harmony for skin. Rêverie de Neroli is a weightless botanical mist that softens, brightens, and reawakens the complexion with living plant hydration. Steam-distilled neroli blossoms lend their luminous, restorative energy, while marine algae hydrosol floods the skin with trace minerals that deeply replenish. Aloe soothes and balances, and gentle plant-derived glycerin locks in dewy moisture. A single veil melts instantly into the skin, refreshing makeup, calming irritation, and inviting a moment of fragrant, floral clarity. Skin feels cooled, comforted, and quietly radiant.
Fine mist spray 120 mL. | 4 oz.
This luminous face oil is a healing nectar mixed from a gorgeous blend of organic cold-pressed oils—plum, prickly pear, hibiscus, strawberry, and rose hip CO₂—chosen for their ability to restore glow, softness, and deep hydration. The formula is further enriched with plant-derived bisabolol, nature’s gentle plumper that calms and visibly smooths the skin, and sea buckthorn CO₂ extract for powerful antioxidant protection. Together, these botanicals deliver a radiant, dewy complexion while supporting barrier strength and long-lasting moisture.
Awaken your senses and sooth your soul with Rêverie de Roses botanical rose hydrosol mist —a sublime distillation of Rosa damascena petals, further enhanced with calming aloe vera and plant-derived glycerin for a moisture surge.
Fine mist spray 120 mL. | 4 oz.
MY BOOK IS OUT:
PRINTING FROM
THE GARDEN
“This is one of those rare creative books that manages to be both visually breathtaking and incredibly practical. From the very first page, Alison Kelly welcomes you into the world of botanical printing with a sense that she wants you to succeed no matter where you’re starting from.”
PLANT-DYED Silk Pillowcases,
HAND-DYED SILK ROBES,
Botanical Printing &
Organic Skincare
