On a clear midsummer morning in Loudon, New Hampshire, the air at Sanborn Mills Farm filled with the lively cadence of a family at work. Jesse and Jessica Matras pulled up to the Merrill House in a van and a truck—the van carrying their children: Hazel, Silas, Evelyn,...

“Natural dyeing demands a surrender of control,” she says. That stance runs against a culture that prefers uniform, chemically locked color. In her practice, variation is evidence of life.