About Scarabajo
Founded in 2021, Scarabajo is a Seattle-based brand where nature, craft, and storytelling come together. Each piece is created with botanical materials sustainably collected from the Pacific Northwest and from Atenas’s hometown in Mexico, weaving two landscapes into a shared language of color and texture. Scarabajo also brings carefully selected fabrics from in India, offering high-quality materials ready to be dyed and transformed into unique botanical prints.
The name Scarabajo (Spanish for beetle) honors the small but mighty beings that sustain ecosystems—symbols of resilience, transformation, and the interconnectedness of all life. More than a brand, Scarabajo is an invitation to slow down, reconnect with the natural world, and carry its beauty and living colors into daily life.
Meet Atenas
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Atenas Morales is a textile and botanical artist whose journey spans Mexico, Spain, and the Pacific Northwest. Mexico gave her a love for textiles and vibrant colors, Spain nurtured her eye for art and form, and the Pacific Northwest inspired her connection to nature—together shaping the language of her work. Her work draws from the organic elegance of nature, transforming flowing lines, delicate forms, and the rhythm of leaves into textiles and prints that celebrate life in motion. With a background in performing arts, Atenas infuses her pieces with movement—garments designed to flow with the body, connecting the wearer to nature and to themselves. She blends diverse textile techniques, from eco-printing and natural dyeing to carefully handsewn details, creating works that are as unique as the stories they hold. |
