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Botanical Dye Workshops & Textiles

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From field to fashion.

From garden to garment.

Natural dyes bring life to textiles.

Colour is all around us. The planet has it’s own colour map in every landscape, expressed through natural dyes and pigments sourced from nature. Plants, minerals, fungi, and insects all contain a full spectrum of colour, and each have their own story to tell. I invite you to join me on this journey and exploration of nature’s colour palette.

 

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🦋 Maya Blue 🦋 I have always wanted to create this colour, and today I tried my first experiment with making it. This colour pigment has an incredibly deep, rich history and culture, and is one of the most resilient painted pigments that retains its
🌼Thanks to the talented @heartcraftcreative for interviewing me in a piece for one of my favourite local Byron Bay mags @paradiso_magazine_ 🌞 Creativity is an alchemy that ebbs and flows, and I believe we create to feel and to understand - to be an
Beltane, Full Flower Moon, May Blooms 🌕🌸🦋••• I am pleasantly haunted by the alchemy of plants. The most giving beings on earth. This is the season where all is in joyous opening. Sometimes I find it’s easy to forget, intrigued
This weekends project results from block printing with potatoes, using shellac ink for paper & bean paste for the fabric, which is cotton mud cloth. I love how rustic it came out! With its natural colour variation and soft print, I personally enj
🌿 in the midst of exploring a very no frills at-home project on block printing with carved potatoes. I’ve just tested them out with ink on paper, and next I will be printing onto the fabric you see here on the table, using a very simple paste
Guess what?! 🧵Natural Indigo Kits are back on my web store 💙 I’ve found during my time at home I’ve been staving off cabin fever with colour and experimentation, and of course with some good tunes to accompany! 🎶 This is also a great o
🌼yesterday’s marigold dye results after having a moment to dry, still just as vibrant!✨I posted a mini tutorial in my stories while dyeing with these medicinal & historic plants - the garments still have an aroma that is so sweet, like ric
🌼 this afternoons dose of marigold yellow reminds me of pure sunshine 🌞 I shared a mini tutorial in my stories to follow along. These flowers were from yesterday’s post. ✨I found these beauties growing abundantly in bushes last year, and thei