Natural / eco printing & dyeing courses

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Natural printing and eco dyeing courses and workshops all across the UK. Learn how to use natural plants (botanical dyes) and materials to create and transfer beautiful natural forms, colours and patterns onto paper, card and silk, by means of a dye bath or steam. Create beautiful orange and yellows from onion skins, turmeric, chamomile and golden rod, red from madder and St. John's Wort and blue from woad (ideal for indigo dyeing and batik).

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Indigo & Arashi Shibori workshop

Indigo & Arashi Shibori workshop

Hertfordshire - Next course on 14th June 2020

This workshop is taught by Lisa Reddings, Textile Designer, BA (Hons) Woven and Printed. With 20 years experience working in the fashion industry. Lisa now has a textile design business focused on hand-dyed and hand-crafted textiles. This workshop will be focused on making patterns using the ancient Japanese technique known as Shibori, followed by dyeing with indigo. Techniques taught will be Arashi, pole wrapping to create stunning linear abstract patterns. This workshop is a fun introduction to indigo and shibori pattern making. Anyone can do it and achieve beautiful and...

Ecodyeing - an introduction to leaves, rust, heat and fabric alchemy!

Ecodyeing - an introduction to leaves, rust, heat and fabric alchemy!

West Midlands - Next course on 27th May 2020

Eco-dyeing- sometimes known as Botanical Printing. Learn how leaves like oak, maple, sycamore, rose and blackberry can successfully, under certain conditions, release colour onto natural fabrics and paper with the use of tight bundling, heat and a bit of chemistry. Subtle or well defined prints can be achieved providing beautiful tones and delicate textural marks. You will take home samples of dyed silk and wool fabrics, dyed paper and a dyed habotai 8 silk hemmed scarf. Whether you want a relaxing creative day or you want to learn the basic...

Natural Dyeing & Eco-printing, Highlands, Scotland

Natural Dyeing & Eco-printing, Highlands, Scotland

Highlands - Next course on 24th June 2020

We teach Natural Dyeing the traditional way as well as Eco-printing directly onto fabric. You can join us for a weekend of dyeing fleece, silk and cotton outdoors over outdoor fires, or a weekend printing on paper, cotton and silk with flowers and leaves. Our courses are run from Crochail woods in the Highlands of Scotland, in a beautiful area just up the road from Loch Ness. Over a weekend you can learn about and make dyes from local foraged plants and ancient imported dye plants. We usually make between...

Introduction to botanical [“eco”] printing

Introduction to botanical [“eco”] printing

Lancashire - Next course on 22nd April 2020

A fascinating introduction to Botanical, or “Eco” Printing at the inspirational Eco Pod at Park View4U, Lytham in Lancashire. The course will be led by Maggie Pearson, a Liverpool-based textile artist, who designs and makes unique textiles and papers, printing them naturally with plants which are bound tightly with natural fibres [silk, wool, cotton, paper] and simmered in a dye bath or steamed over hot water to extract the plant pigments and produce a print. You will have the chance to go foraging for leaves with Maggie in the park...

Hand-Spinning & Natural Dyeing Retreat, Highlands, Scotland

Hand-Spinning & Natural Dyeing Retreat, Highlands, Scotland

Highlands - Next course on 4th July 2020

Come and join for either our week-long Natural Dyeing and Hand-Spinning course or our 6 day shorter course. We are located in a beautiful part of the Scottish Highlands. Participants spend their first few days foraging for Highland dye plants and making botanical dyes in our woodland clearing. We make our dyes outdoors over fires the traditional way, dyeing our own and local Shetland fleece ready to spin. We have our own small flock of Shetland sheep, which Alex will hand-shear on our longer course -we also sort and wash...

Create printed fabric products in Hampshire

Create printed fabric products in Hampshire

If you have ever considered designing and creating something to use in your home or thought about making personalised gifts for your family and friends, this is the workshop for you. Join me in the heart of the Meon Valley to explore kitchen table printing. Simply bring along your design ideas for images, patterns and shapes and learn how to translate these into a design, before cutting a stamp using Essdee Master Cut and printing your design. We will initially create paper and card based products, such as gift tags...

Beginners Shibori and indigo dyeing workshop

Beginners Shibori and indigo dyeing workshop

Hertfordshire - Next course on 26th April 2020

This workshop is taught by Lisa Reddings, Textile Designer, BA (Hons) Woven and Printed. With 20 years experience working in the fashion industry. Lisa now has a textile design business focused on hand-dyed and hand-crafted textiles. This workshop will be entering around making patterns using the ancient Japanese technique known as Shibori, followed by dyeing them in indigo dye. Techniques taught will include folding, clamping, twisting, stitching and tying fabric to create a resist once the fabric enters the dye pot. This workshop is a fun introduction to indigo and...

Indigo Weekend -Shibori & Batik Workshop at Wild Rose Escapes, Highlands, Scotland

Indigo Weekend -Shibori & Batik Workshop at Wild Rose Escapes, Highlands, Scotland

Highlands - Next course on 9th May 2020

Come and join us on our 2 day Indigo dyeing workshop. We are located in a beautiful part of the Scottish Highlands. The main focus of the weekend is everything blue! We will look at Indigo recipes and make a up a vat of natural indigo. Over the weekend we will be using both Shibori techniques from Japan and Batik from Java. Shibori uses folds, clips and stitches to create a resist on fabric, so when it is dipped into the Indigo vat the pattern remains. The whole process is...

A spanner in the works.. more botanical printing

A spanner in the works.. more botanical printing

Merseyside - Next course on 29th April 2020

Building on your prior knowledge of botanical/'eco' printing principles [maybe from one of my Introductory Courses], this course will delve deeper into the use of tannins, iron and natural dyes in the creation of beautiful prints. It will also explore a range of fabrics and different methods of processing your textiles and papers. You will create several prints on textiles and paper, using local leaves.

Botanical eco printing workshop

Botanical eco printing workshop

Lancashire - Next course on 3rd May 2020

Join us in the idyllic rural setting of Cedar Farm for our one day Botanical Eco printing class with Maggie Pearson. Botanical Eco Printing uses leaves, tightly bundled in fabric or stacked in layers of paper and steamed over hot water or immersed in a steam or dye bath to extract and transfer pigments from the leaves to create a unique imprint of the leaf. In this intermediate class you will expand your knowledge by exploring tannins and iron to add definition to your printing. Botanical printer, Maggie Pearson will...

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