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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Natural dyeing with Deborah Barker

Natural dyeing with Deborah Barker

Greater London - Next course on 22nd January 2020

Deborah grew up in the Sussex Countryside and has a degree in History of Design from University of Brighton where she specialized in textile history. Her earliest experiments were collecting hedgerow plants with her children to dye the sheep fleece they gathered from the fields around their Sussex cottage. The passion she discovered for working with living botanical colours has never left her. She went on to study the craft of natural dyeing and has a deep respect for the knowledge that has been accumulated over generations. This understanding and...

Indigo & Arashi Shibori workshop

Indigo & Arashi Shibori workshop

East Sussex - Next course on 23rd May 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...

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 natural dyeing at Turner & Thom near Stockbridge

Introduction to natural dyeing at Turner & Thom near Stockbridge

Hampshire - Next course on 23rd November 2019

6 hour 'Introduction to Natural Dyeing' workshop, 10am-4pm, in the magical setting of the woodland studio at Turner & Thom near Stockbridge. What's included? The workshop price includes 5 hours of guided tuition (plus one hour for lunch), which includes all the necessary materials and equipment including aprons and gloves. You will be given your own clear workshop handouts to take away with you. All drinks, snacks, and a delicious home cooked lunch are included in the price. Please be sure to let us know of any dietary requirements at...

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...

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 30th November 2019

Eco-dyeing- sometimes known as Botanical Printing. Learn how leaves like oak, maple, sycamore, rose and blackberry can successfully, under certain conditions, discharge 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 2 dyed habotai silk hemmed scarves. Whether you want to a relaxing creative day in a wonderful natural setting or you...

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...

Felting & natural dyeing craft holidays & courses in the Highlands of Scotland

Felting & natural dyeing craft holidays & courses in the Highlands of Scotland

Highlands - Next course on 6th June 2020

Come and join us in the Highlands of Scotland to get really immersed in traditional wool crafts. We run our Fleece to Felt weeks in May and August, our Dye to Spin weeks in July and August and our Craft retreat in September. We start our May and July weeks by shearing one of our Shetland sheep and washing and sorting fleeces. We go on to picking dye plants, making natural dyes and dyeing our fleece over outdoor fires the traditional way. Mid week we visit some of the areas...

Autumn eco printing (on paper) - abitmoreink workshop, Saltaire

Autumn eco printing (on paper) - abitmoreink workshop, Saltaire

Join eco-printing artists Issy Denton and Sue Ripley for a full day of eco-printing and create beautiful prints, colours and textures on paper from the foliage of locally-gathered plants and trees. During this session you will be using two different eco-printing processes - a steam and a natural dye bath simmer - the processing techniques both offer exciting, but very different, colour results. The day also includes a local walk, where you will have time to forage and gather your own selection of plants and leaves for the eco-print "bundle"...

Beginners Shibori and indigo dyeing workshop

Beginners Shibori and indigo dyeing workshop

Hertfordshire - Next course on 11th July 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...

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