Dionosys is a collective where recycled, reclaimed, and found materials + textiles are used to design garments that evolve through care and use. Our small batch practise emphasizes sustainable and repurposed knowledge and artistry. Being that we work so closely to the land in the process of creating, we want to acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Kalapuya, Klamath, Klickitat, Umpqua, and Chinook communities, and we recognize their ongoing presence, history, and stewardship of this region. Dionosys appreciates your engagement as part of a larger community exchange rooted in shared meaning.

Our natural dye process has become a slow ritual of transformation. The first pot of rhubarb with rose led to curiosity unfolding into a series of palettes between avocado and onion skins, turmeric, hibiscus, bark, and various tea baths.

Each dye bath becomes an exercise in intention; color comes from a patience process and forager expertise mixed with our growing knowledge in native plants and minerals across Oregon.This work continues as a seasonal study.

Dionosyian colors are only ever discovered.

A large channel of Dionosys runs through our use and refinement of found wood. We make buttons, pendants, and are eager to explore further.

We first began with buttons about two years ago, and have come far since. We are learning from Esmés father who has a workshop back home.

All of our wood is collected and found

So far we have worked with

✣ Cedar

✣ Maple

✣ Walnut

✣ Birch

✣ Douglas Fir

Other sources :::

We select fabrics from a variety of second hand/recycled material art stores. We prioritize comfort, style, durability, and quality for a variety of different fits and feels. Sometimes the fabric decides the product, other times a preconceived idea selects the fabric. When two pre-constructed pieces just seem to fit better together, we make it happen; these garments can be found under our Upcycle page. ♺

With regards to comfort, another main channel through Dionosys; Meant4Movement is a series designed just for this. We believe your body deserves to be held in surreal sentience.

You can find Meant4Movement garments on our images page, for now.

With accessible layering essentials, an additional channel under Dionosys, we began the 1.5 yard project, where every yard is an offering and return. Clothing becomes reimagined as a shared, sliding-scale ecosystem of care, cut from what already exists and then sewn toward what everyone deserves.

Sliding Scale, One-of-a-Kind Layering Pieces To Pair

Everything is melting in nature. We think we see objects but our eyes are slow and partial. Nature is blooming and withering in long puffy respirations. Rising and falling in oceanic wave-motion. A mind that opened itself fully to nature without sentimental preconception would be gutted by nature's course materialism, its relentless superfluidity. An apple tree laden with fruit; how peaceful, how picturesque. But remove the rose filter of humanism from our gaze and look again. See nature spuming and frothing, its mad spermatic bubbles endlessly spilling out and smashing in that inhuman round of waste, rot, and carnage. From the jammed glassy cells of sea roe to the feathery spores poured into the air from bursting green pods, nature is a festering hornets nest of aggression and overkill. Nature is the seething excess of being. The most effective weapons against the flux of nature is art...Art, no matter how minimalist, is never simply a design. It is always a ritualistic reordering of reality . The enterprising of art, in a stable collective era or an unsettled individualistic one, is inspired by anxiety. Every subject localized and honored by art is endangered by the opposite. Art is shutting in, in order to shut out. Art is a ritualistic binding of the perpetual motion machine that is nature. Art is spellbinding. Art fixes the audience in its seat, stops the feet before a painting, fixes a book in the hand. Contemplation is a magic act.