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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”

From Seed to Blue – Home growing Indigo pigment plants

IT IS NOW TOO LATE TO JOIN THE GROWING PROGRAM AS YOUR PLANTS WOULD NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO MATURE BUT IF YOU ARE ALREADY GROWING AND YOU WOULD LIKE TO TAKE PART IN THE TWO DYEING WORKSHOPS (LIVE ZOOM AND RECORDED FOR REPLAY) END OF JULY AND END OF AUGUST 2024 BOOK A SPACEContinue reading “From Seed to Blue – Home growing Indigo pigment plants”

Growing and Using dyes with The League of Artisans

Calling everyone near Leek (UK) in the Starffordshire Moorlands who is interested in growing Natural dye plants, whether you have a garden or just a few pots ! I am so very delighted to join forces with The League of Artisans https://www.instagram.com/leagueofartisans/ this summer as they have decided to join in my “From seeds toContinue reading “Growing and Using dyes with The League of Artisans”

WHICH VAT, UNDERSTANDING AND CHOOSING YOUR INDIGO VAT, FREE ONLINE EVENT !

THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED FOR BOOKING BUT I MIGHT RUN THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE KEEP AN EYE OPENED. Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw is a Natural dyes and Indigo practitioner based in Glasgow (Scotland) She grows there a natural dye/Indigo garden in the grounds of the Glasgow Botanical Garden and runs a “home grower program”Continue reading “WHICH VAT, UNDERSTANDING AND CHOOSING YOUR INDIGO VAT, FREE ONLINE EVENT !”

ABOUT THE INDIGO FAMILY AND TRAVELLING SOLO IN NORTHERN THAILAND ON NEW YEAR’S EVE

And it is the New Year already, 2024 already, time passes so fast when you are having fun learning and sharing as I have been doing for years now. I have always had a wide group of friends which I like to call family, friends from home, friends from learning, friends from moving to Scotland,Continue reading “ABOUT THE INDIGO FAMILY AND TRAVELLING SOLO IN NORTHERN THAILAND ON NEW YEAR’S EVE”

“The Indigo Plot” Studio boxes Autumn 2022

Studio boxes are back… and this year they are very special. Every autumn/winter I run through my studio stash and make up some studio boxes with samples or surplus of fabric and paper printed, inks, pastes and various other creative items, ingredients I want to share around. Usually they are samples I made for classesContinue reading ““The Indigo Plot” Studio boxes Autumn 2022″

My Indigo diaries 2022 – Day 1 – Planting Japanese Indigo (Persicaria Tinctoria) seeds

Japanese Indigo or Persicaria Tinctoria, originated from China and Vietnam and is an annual dye plant, part of the Buckwheat family and producing blue pigment (with a high count of Indican the precursor of Indigo). It is Frost tender and has a fast growth (16 weeks in my case from planting the seeds to firstContinue reading “My Indigo diaries 2022 – Day 1 – Planting Japanese Indigo (Persicaria Tinctoria) seeds”