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Feeling Blue 2025 – Save the Date

An exhibition of natural and colours related to “The Indigo Plot” the natural dye garden of textile artist Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw in the grounds of the Glasgow Botanical garden is coming back to Glasgow. Please save the date. Dates of the exhibition 20/21st of Septembre from 11 to 4pm, this exhibition is FOC. Further detailsContinue reading “Feeling Blue 2025 – Save the Date”

Protected: Indigo ferrous vat and pattern making January 2025

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Protected: Cook a Ribbon – online botanical printing in jars workshop

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Protected: RED MAKES GREEN, COTINUS LEAVES PIGMENT EXTRACTION

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Protected: THE TRUE COLOUR OF THE COTINUS ON LEATHER

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Protected: Print and Weave online workshop

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From Seeds to Blue 2025, home growing Japanese Indigo and Woad

MOST OF THIS WORKSHOP IN ON ZOOM LIVE AND IT WILL BE RECORDED AND SHARED FOR REPLAY. THE CATCH UP SESSIONS ONLY FOR A FEW DAYS BUT THE LEARNING BITS WILL BE SHARE FOR 1 YEAR. THEY ARE FOR THE USE OF THE PARTICIPANT ONLY NOT FOR SHARING AROUND. PLEASE REMEMBER ANY SELF EMPLOYED ARTISTContinue reading “From Seeds to Blue 2025, home growing Japanese Indigo and Woad”

Natural dyes studio boxes are now SOLD OUT !

I am afraid that the Natural dyes studio boxes are now sold out for 2024 but they will be back at some point. Keep an eye on this page. Natural dyes from plants you grow are so precious and growing the plants I use for my experiments make me feel like not wasting any ofContinue reading “Natural dyes studio boxes are now SOLD OUT !”

Protected: The Colours of Mexico, a natural dye workshop at Teotitlán

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SOLD OUT – The French retreat 2025 is live

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”