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Samples of fabric used on a print, tie dye, resist workshop with natural dye extracts with Debbie Tomkies of DT Craft and Design

Print, Tie, Resist – Creative Ways to Dye Fabric with Natural Dyes – 29 Nov 2025

Join me for a fascinating day exploring printing with natural dye extracts. You’ll be creating a fabulous set of cotton fabric samples, using a range of exciting techniques including tie dye, print and resist. You will finish the day creating a lovely cotton tote to take home, dyed using your personal choice of techniques and colours.

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Introduction to hand dyeing yarn – 15 Nov 25

Buy ticket About this course: In this one day introductory course, you’ll start the day learning the basics of dyeing yarn with synthetic (procion mx fibre reactive) dyes – how to prepare your yarn and dyes, how to blend colours and plan colourways. You’ll be making sample cards as a reference to take home and

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Botanical printing from a workshop with Debbie Tomkies of DT Craft & Design

Introduction to botanical printing – dye beautiful fabrics with natural dyes and plants!

In this workshop you will use a range of readily available leaves and plants to create fabulous prints on fabrics. You will learn how to find the best plants for printing, explore different ways to create prints, sampling and experimenting on cotton fabric. Using your samples for ideas and inspiration you will apply your new-found

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Wool yarn samples hand-dyed with natural dye extracts

Colours from Nature – Introduction to naturally dyeing yarn – 1/7/14th August 25

Join dye expert Debbie Tomkies in collabortion with Breakdown Bolton CIC and the Woodland Trust at the Wild and Fruity allotment in Bolton as she shows you how to create beautiful colours from plant extracts and plants using simple techniques you can repeat at home. Course level: This introductory session is suitable for complete beginners.

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