A weekend of natural dye and weaving, Totnes, Devon
Sat 11 Jan
|Plants & Colour Studio,
A workshop that combines the ancient craft of peg loom weaving with a space to reflect, dream and make.
Time & Location
11 Jan 2020, 10:00 – 12 Jan 2020, 17:00
Plants & Colour Studio, , Unit 12, Coombe Park, Ashprington, Totnes TQ9 7DYCoombe Park Rural Business Centre,, Ashprington,, Totnes TQ9 7DY, UK
About the event
Working with locally available plants and fibres to create beautiful dyed and woven textiles. Flora and Naomi work creatively with natural materials to connect people with the natural world. Celebrating the abundance and exploring what it means to be of this land, through practical relationship with plants and fibre.
Saturday: Introduction To Natural Dyeing led by Flora Arbuthnott
Exploring natural dyeing techniques to create a variety of colours and effects on silk and wool. Create a spectrum of dyed wool you can incorporate in to your woven rug on Sunday.
This is an introduction to processes through which you can achieve colours from plants that grow all around us. Such as gorse, nettles, walnut, onion skins, dandelion, oak. We will go for a walk and see what natural dye plants are available to us in the landscape, we can gather some plants for the dye pot. These are softer earthy colours - the…