The Art and Science of Natural Dyes by Joy Boutrup and Catharine Ellis – now in stock! This book is getting rave reviews and quite rightly so! It bridges the gap between the aspiring natural dyer making their very first dyebath and takes them right through to understanding the chemistry of natural dyes. What I […]
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Summer School and the colours are exploding everywhere! Three days into Summer School and we are having an amazing time! The students have been kept busy and so far the group have produced over 150 samples and between them have dyed around 100 skeins of yarn/fibre! We’ve experimented with solid colour, handpaints, ball-dyeing, blending and
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Summer School Day One Day One was a helter skelter of introductions, lots of sampling, starting the first colourways (and a bit of maths!). Before the course, students were encouraged to bring inspiration images and objects and they had clearly done their homework! After producing the first set of samples for their recipe books, we
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Just back from a lovely weekend with the members of Somerset Guild of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers. Saturday was a talk and sales tables and on Sunday we had a fun time exploring natural dyes. Starting with primary colours we created red with madder, yellow with weld and blue with Saxon blue. If you’ve never
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