Dyeing
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In-Person CourseYarn Dyeing Workshop
£40.00This workshop will show you a variety of techniques that are used to dye yarn or fibre using acid dyes. The price includes 2 x 100g skeins of yarn or 2 x 100g Blue Faced Leicester Tops. You will have a range of colours to choose from and will also be shown how to mix colours and gradients.
Location : Wiltshire
This workshop will show you a ...
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In-Person CourseBotanical Printmaking with Elisabeth Viguie-Culshaw
£95.00Join us for a fantastic botanical eco printing workshop with Elisabeth Viguie-Culshaw from The Lansdowne House. Botanical Printing is the natural technique of using floral and foliage elements to create colourful marks on paper and fabric using heat and humidity. In this one day workshop, we will learn the basics of Botanical Printing, get accustomed with material, mordanting and printing, using easy to obtain Natural dyes. We’ll start the morning by learning how to prepare our materials as our first botanical bundles go in the dying pots, and we’ll make mirror image prints onto fabrics. After a break for lunch in the garden, we will start to use the dye pots from earlier to create beautiful prints on both paper and fabrics in beautiful shades of green and blue.
Location : Scotland
Join us for a fantastic botanical eco printing workshop with Elisabeth Viguie-Culshaw from The ...
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In-Person CourseIntroduction to Natural Dyeing
£130.006 hour ‘Introduction to Natural Dyeing’ workshop, 10am-4pm, ELKA studio, Slackstead, Hampshire.
The workshop will teach you the basic principles and practice of natural dyeing using everyday kitchen and foraged dyestuffs. There will also be an introduction to indigo and over dyeing.
Spaces are limited to ensure you receive as much guidance as you need.
This workshop is suitable for complete beginners and those that have a little experience who would like some more practical guidance.
MATERIALS
We like to work with as many sustainable materials as possible and, where possible, we try to source end of line and second hand materials that would otherwise go to waste.
You will be dyeing a range of natural yarns from hand spun recycled banana yarn to linen and organic cotton.
Location : Hampshire
6 hour 'Introduction to Natural Dyeing' workshop, 10am-4pm, ELKA studio, Slackstead, Hampshire. The workshop ...
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In-Person CourseNatural Dyes Protein and Cellulose Fibres Combined – Introduction – 2 Day
£235.00Learn the hand dyeing process with natural dyes in rural Pembrokeshire. This two day workshop will introduce you to hand dyeing with botanical dyes using protein fibres – (animal fibres) wool, alpaca, yak, silk, and cellulose fibres – (plant fibres) cotton, linen, bamboo, hemp. This is an introduction or refresher workshop which will provide you with the core skills needed for you to build upon and develop in your own time. Using a range of ancient natural plant dye extracts, you will explore the process of using natural dyes.
Location : Wales
Learn the hand dyeing process with natural dyes in rural Pembrokeshire. This two day ...
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In-Person CourseNatural Dyes Cellulose Fibres – Introduction – 1 Day
£135.00We start the day at 09.30am with tea & coffee. The first 15 minutes of each workshop is reserved to understanding the workshop Health and Safety requirements.
Our workshops aim to finish at 16.30 hours, with a half hour for lunch.
All equipment and materials you need are provided. This includes all the fabrics you need to learn natural dyeing, gloves and an apron. A notebook is also included for you to start
your own Dye Reference record. By providing all you need, we hope that it will help you concentrate on the workshop and learn as much as you can.
After the Health and Safety requirements, there will be an introduction to the techniques and methods of natural dyeing, how to prepare cellulose fibres for dyeing, resist techniques
and the vibrant colours that can be achieved with professional natural dye extracts.
Using a variety of sizes of fabrics, handkerchiefs, napkins, scarves and shawls, you will learn the different ways natural dyes can be applied to yarn to create striking effects.
You will take away a variety of fabrics in a range of natural colourLocation : Wales
We start the day at 09.30am with tea & coffee. The first 15 minutes of ...
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In-Person CourseNatural Dyes Protein Fibres – Introduction – 1 Day
£125.00Learn the hand dyeing process with natural dyes in rural Pembrokeshire. This one day workshop will introduce you to hand dyeing with botanical dyes using protein fibres – (animal fibres) wool, yak etc. This is an introduction or refresher workshop which will provide you with the core skills needed for you to build upon and develop in your own time. Using a range of ancient natural plant dye extracts, you will explore the process of using natural dyes.
Location : Wales
Learn the hand dyeing process with natural dyes in rural Pembrokeshire. This one day ...