Experience Nature’s Beautiful Blues in this online workshop with dye expert Debbie Tomkies. In this workshop Debbie will be showing you how to set up a simple dye vat using sodium carbonate (soda ash) and thiourea dioxide (spectralite). This reliable, easy to use vat can be created easily at home with our Natural Indigo starter […]
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Hand-dyeing with natural dye extracts – join my live demo 9 May 2020! If you’re curious about hand-dyeing, have some dyes but haven’t tried them yet, or if you have a dyeing question, join my live demo and see how easy it is to get started! How do I join? If you’d like to join
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Hand-dyeing with procion and acid dyes – join my live demo 9 May 2020! If you’re curious about hand-dyeing, have some dyes but haven’t tried them yet, or if you have a dyeing question, join my live demo and see how easy it is to get started! How do I join? If you’d like to
Hand-dyeing with synthetic dyes – livestream demo this Saturday – 9 May 20 Read More »
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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