For artisan Joscelyn Himes, creating tribal and eastern-inspired, hand-dyed designs is second nature. In fact, she finds it meditative. "I love everything about the process. It's tactile, creative and incorporates my love of art history,” says Joscelyn. Since childhood, fiber arts have also been her form of entertainment.

"I started at five years old. We didn't have a television
in our house growing up in Montana," Joscelyn explains. "Sewing, spinning and dyeing were passed onto me by
my mother, who learned from her mother, who was self-taught." In high school, Joscelyn would make clothes she saw in magazines for her and her friends. After college, she became pregnant with twins. Joscelyn wanted to maintain her identity as well as find something she could do at home. Hand-dyed designs were the answer.

"Because I was pregnant and paranoid, I turned to Shibori, the Japanese dye technique that has no chemicals," says Joscelyn, who sold her pieces through trunk shows. Eventually, the fashion world caught up with Joscelyn,
and she was invited to create silk patterns for Vera Wang, Bill Blass, and Donna Karan Collection. It was Urban Zen, however, that encouraged Joscelyn to work in cashmere
in tops, dresses, and luxe scarf-blankets. Cashmere, says Joscelyn, is "as a piece of cake" given how well it takes color.

Donna fell madly in love with the exclusive Urban Zen scarves that double as lightweight blankets. One design,
a black, red and ivory tie-dye look, became a signature for Donna, who wears it throughout the year. Recently, Urban Zen asked Joscelyn to create one-of-a-kind series inspired the indigenous art of Nomad Two Worlds. “Talk about objects of desire,” says Donna. "To see one is to want
to immediately possess it. It’s truly wearable art."