Come and enjoy a completely blue day…have fun and learn how to indigo dye with this beginner-friendly workshop.
Our workshop explores the use of a natural indigo from India and how we can dye fabrics in a vat and create various patterns using a Shibori techniques!
During the morning you will learn how to set up your own indigo vat, whilst this is developing we will tie several sample pieces of fabric in different shibori techniques, testing various combinations. You can then choose your favourite shibori pattern and hand dye a large cotton scarf or cushion cover.
After lunch you will get the chance to have a go at Indian block printing onto Indigo dyed fabric, testing patterns and colours before printing an item of your choosing.
Materials included in the workshop:
-Practice fabric for testing Shibori techniques
-Scarf or Cushion for final dye piece
-Indigo dyed fabric to practice block printing onto
-Piece of dyed fabric to block print (scarf/ cushion cover/ tote bag)
Suitable for all abilities, ages 15+
