Botanical printing on paper is one of my very favorite sustainable technique to create wonderful prints on Art paper. Paper is a cellulose material and it takes the dye very well if mordanted like linen/cotton/hemp. It is a very versitile material and once printed you can transform it in many different items or simply displayContinue reading “SOLD OUT – The French retreat 2025 is live”
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Protected: From seeds to blue 2024 – pigment extraction and direct vats
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Protected: Make a Woad vat and extract pigment for keep
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Protected: La vrai couleur du Cotinus, Impression botanique de la feuille du Cotinus Coggyria sur tissus.
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Protected: From Blue to Green, Indigo dye residence at The Indigo Plot
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FEELING BLUE THE EXHIBITION 2024 – A festival of natural dyes and fibers
JOIN US THIS YEAR FOR A FESTIVAL OF FIBRE AND DYES IN THE GLASGOW BOTANICS… 14 – 15 SEPTEMBER 2024 from 11 am to 4pm Kibble Palace – Glasgow Botanical Garden – 730 Great Western Road Glasgow G12 (local street parking pay and display available – IF YOU WANT TO GROW INDIGO AND WOAD WITHContinue reading “FEELING BLUE THE EXHIBITION 2024 – A festival of natural dyes and fibers”
Protected: Ikebana blue – Festival of quilts 2024
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Protected: Pattern making and Ferrous vat building online live course – August 2024
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Protected: MAKE A FERROUS VAT – AUGUST 2024
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Make a ferrous Indigo vat – virtual self paced vat building and maintening workshop
The Indigo Ferrous vat is a natural vat using Indigo pigment powder and both Ferrous sulphate/Lime in the set up. It is a cold vat very suitable for cellulose material (and occasionally silk) it is not suitable for wool. In this workshop I demystify Indigo and tell you all bout the Ferrous vat. You learnContinue reading “Make a ferrous Indigo vat – virtual self paced vat building and maintening workshop”
THE LANSDOWNE HOUSE 