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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Hand-Spinning & Natural Dyeing Retreat, Highlands, Scotland

Hand-Spinning & Natural Dyeing Retreat, Highlands, Scotland

In-person course

Highlands - Next course on 3rd July 2021

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...

Natural Dyeing & Eco-printing, Highlands, Scotland

Natural Dyeing & Eco-printing, Highlands, Scotland

In-person course

Highlands - Next course on 7th August 2021

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. 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 7-8 dyes over a weekend which makes about 25-30 shades, a beautiful rainbow...

Felting and natural dyeing craft holiday in the Highlands of Scotland

Felting and natural dyeing craft holiday in the Highlands of Scotland

In-person course

Highlands - Next course on 7th June 2021

Come and join us in the Highlands of Scotland to get really immersed in traditional wool crafts. We start our week 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 stunning scenery for inspiration, including Glen Affric (one of Scotland's most beautiful glens). The last two days of the course are spent either wet felting (usually a wall hanging...

Natural dyeing course in Pembrokeshire

Natural dyeing course in Pembrokeshire

In-person course

Pembrokeshire - Next course on 20th June 2021

Natural dyeing using woodland plants At Coppicewood College, Cilgerran. This weekend course is set in a lovely woodland near Cilgerran where we will forage for plants for dyeing yarns and fleece. Starting by exploring in the woods you will learn about the dyeing process, and then make your own mordant to prepare fibres for dyeing. You can also experiment with eco printing using leaves and flowers directly onto paper. On day two you gather plants to make various botanical dyes and create a beautiful range of coloured samples on cotton...

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

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

In-person course

Highlands - Next course on 8th May 2021

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...

Dyeing with Natural Dyes

Dyeing with Natural Dyes

In-person course

Shropshire - Next course on 30th October 2020

Come and learn how to use plants from the garden and hedgerows to dye wool, over two days. It's very theraputic, relaxing and fun. Collect flowers, leaves, bark, berries and roots, cook them to extract the colour and turn yarns, fibres and fleece beautiful soft, subtle colours. Learn all about the most environmentally friendly mordants which help to fix the dye to the wool and appreciate which mordants are toxic and harmful. Hopefully we’ll be outside in the garden, weather permitting! Please wear appropriate clothes. As with all my workshops...

Botanical Printing on Textiles & Paper with Deborah Dawn - a 'Quirky Workshop' at Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns near Penrith and Ullswater

Botanical Printing on Textiles & Paper with Deborah Dawn - a 'Quirky Workshop' at Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns near Penrith and Ullswater

In-person course

Cumbria - Next course on 10th July 2021

Since 2005, ‘Quirky Workshops’ in Greystoke has been offering an eclectic and unrivalled range of arts, crafts and heritage skills courses. We now run over 140 ‘Quirky Workshops’ each year from our pretty 17thC farmhouse on the fringes of the beautiful Lake District and Eden Valley in Cumbria. In July 2020 we opened a lovely new, listed & spacious 'Covid-secure' teaching studio - the 'Swallow Barn', which now enjoys consistently excellent feedback; please see below for all details. Our new programme for each year is sent out at the end...

Botanical Napkin Printing Workshop

Botanical Napkin Printing Workshop

In-person course

London - Next course on 30th October 2020

Using lavender from my garden, create your own unique printed napkins. Or you are welcome to bring your own flowers or leaves and design your own pattern. I will provide two white napkins, fabric paint and sponges. We will also do a few practice paper prints for you to take home with you. The class duration is 1 hour with a maximum of 2 people per workshop.

DIY Kit: Botanical Napkin Printing

DIY Kit: Botanical Napkin Printing

Craft kit or book

Using lavender from the garden, create your own unique printed napkins from the comfort of your own home. Select from the following paint colours:- Cobalt Blue Magenta Pink Pure White True Black Sunny Yellow Scarlet Gold Silver Turquoise Green

Bundle dye a sock blank

Bundle dye a sock blank

In-person course

Learn the bundle dyeing technique to create a naturally unique and colourful British wool sock blank. Using a selection of seasonal, homegrown and responsibly foraged flowers and leaves, we will decorate the sock blank (a knitted length of fabric) which we will then roll and tie together before steaming to lock in the colour. Once taken home and dried, these can then be knitted directly from the blank (or wound into a cake) to knit into a pair of socks or other accessory – the unique colour and pattern will...

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