Plant Based Colour Making For Textiles And Paper
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Botanical Ink & Paint Making Online Course
An introduction to four techniques for making inks and paints. Soda ash inks, evaporated inks, extract inks, and lake pigments. Identifying reliable and effective plants for pigment. How to use binders, preservatives, and additives. Working with metals, acids, and alkalis as to fix and transform colours on the paper.
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Introduction To Natural Dyes Online Course
Specialising in effective plant based mordants (fixatives) for vibrant colours. We will look at fabric, fabric preparations, dye plants, extraction processes, and dye processes, and over-dyeing through written recipes and video tutorials.
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Crayon Making With Natural Pigments Online Course
Learn how to make effective natural wax crayons from earth pigment, plant pigments, and fungi.
A recording of a live demonstration, supported by online learning resources with links to materials, extra pre-recorded content, and written instructions.
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Printmaking With Dyes, Mordants, & Modifiers
Learn how to make pastes with dyes, pH modifiers, and mordants for silk screen printing and potato printing. With the options for printing with dyes on undyed fabric, printing with modifiers on dyed fabric, and printing mordants before dyeing. Including guides to dunging and steaming to ensure lightfastness and evenness of colour.
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Access All The Resources
10% discount when you sign up to all the resources.
Offering an in depth introduction to botanical colour applications for textiles and paper, from plant foraging and cultivation, to making dyes, inks, paints, crayons, print-pastes, & more. Fostering connection with nature, while cultivating technical skills, artistic exploration, and creative community.
Natural Colour Maker’s SW England Regional Gathering
Saturday 19th July 1-5pm
With an optional lunch in the cafe (Neem’z Nosh) beforehand 12-1pm
Venue: Moor Imagination Centre, Buckfastleigh, Devon
Come and join us for a day time gathering of people who are practicing natural colour making for visual arts and craft, and who are based in South West England.
It’ll be an informal event, aimed at strengthening our network and fostering mutual support and learning. A space to share ideas, processes, doubts, queries and the joy of working within the landscape and ecology of South West.
The day will be loosely facilitated by Ione and Flora, prioritising getting to know each other, forming a collective map of our colour making practices in the South West, and finding potential overlaps and exchanges.
You can expect:
To meet other colour-makers from across the southwest
To have time to share your practice and hear from others
Time spent talking as a whole group and in smaller break out groups
A space for material exchange (see what to bring)
A breakout creative space for freeflow drawing and a break from talking if needed!
Price Sliding Scale:
Tier One: £8 (limited spaces: 5) (covers the venue hire)
Tier Two: £14 (limited spaces: 5) (covers venue hire and basic expenses of the organisers)
Tier Three: £18 (covers venue hire and basic expenses and the time of the organisers)
As this is a collaborative community event, we are aiming to keep it as affordable as possible so the fees just covering the basic costs of the event. If you are planning to join, it would help us if you can book your place as early as possible or by the 13th June so we can have a sense of numbers and budget.
If you feel like this price is prohibitive to you coming let us know.
There will be up to 25 people at the gathering.
Come and join us for a gathering of people practicing natural colour making for visual arts and craft, and who are based in South West England.
On Saturday 19th July, 1-5pm
Optional lunch beforehand 12-1pm
Venue: Moor Imagination Centre, Buckfastleigh, Devon
