Growing Dye Plants, Indigo, Online Workshop
The Lansdowne House
Deadline: 30 March 2025 at 23:50
On 1st April 2025 for 6 months:
A 6-month program about growing Japanese Indigo and Woad at home and learning how to extract and use the blue pigment for dye.
This is a workshop about growing and using pigment-yielding dyes in your own space with support over Zoom sessions. Over the 6 months, we will cover germinating, growing, and using Japanese Indigo and Woad plants.
If you live in the UK, there will be an additional option to join me for a studio workshop in Glasgow in August and September to create a blue to green color palette on both silk and cellulose.
There will be an exhibition titled "Feeling Blue" associated with this project on the weekend of the 20th of September in the Glasgow Botanical Garden.
You don’t need to have any background in dyeing or growing to participate, but you need to have some drive as it takes focus to go through the 6 months and achieve great results.
Most of this workshop will be live on Zoom, and it will be recorded and shared for replay. Please note that with every UK mainland booking, you will receive a small packet of Japanese Indigo seeds and Woad. Make sure to email me your postal address after booking so that I can ship you seeds in March 2025 to bettysbeautifullife@gmail.com. You will be able to order more seeds from my seed suppliers based in the UK if you wish to grow more plants; I am not in a position to supply you with additional seeds.
I am based in Scotland and will follow the local growing season, but I will advise on other geographical areas. I will help you source seeds if you live in other geographical areas. From April to the end of June, we will have monthly Zoom catch-ups about growing. At the end of July and August, we will have two online sessions about extracting and using blue dye. Those sessions will be available for replay, and you will be able to interact with other participants but only in the FB group.
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Elisabeth is a natural dye artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. She grows and teaches how to dye with Indigo and Woad. She opened "The Indigo Plot," a natural dye garden in the grounds of the Glasgow Botanical Garden in 2021. From there, she runs a sustainable dye program, educating the public to make the connection between plant and color.
Location: All Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, International
The deadline is Sunday, 30 March 2025, at 23:50.
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