Science Magic: Natural Dyeing for Crafters and Artists
Samantha Farmer - 3 day natural dyeing and spinning workshop - 28/29/30th July- £330
Science Magic is a dive into hands-on exploration of local fibres and natural dyeing. Wool, plants and fungi from the Scottish Highlands meet your creative mind and heart as we dye and create our own sustainable materials..
We will be covering wool/fibre sourcing, processing and spinning alongside natural dyeing using historical and modern sources. Time in the studio will be in hand with outdoors sessions foraging for materials in the surrounding countryside. Learn how to dye your own skeins of wool, bundle dye, and try your hand at processing and handspinning fibre.
Day 1
Introduction to natural dyeing: materials, processes, mordants/modifiers, things you can dye. After this introduction we will go out and forage for dyestuffs. Bringing gathered materials back to prepare for hot dye pots and solar dye baths.
Day 2
Blending pre-dyed local wool and other natural fibres using the blending board, drum carder and hand carders for different effects. Introduction to hand-spinning the fibre on drop spindles. dyeing skeins in hot dye pots using foraged materials and dye extracts
Day 3
Indigo & woad dyeing (blues!), overdyeing skeins of yarn from the day before to create a wide range of shades using different effects. Choose your own adventure- individual help with hand-spinning, more dyeing, more wool blending, needle felting, whatever strikes your fancy to spend a couple of extra hours doing.
Take home
Your dyed skeins (enough for a medium to large project), blended wool for spinning or felting, a solar dye jar that can be reused, dyer’s journal.
Samantha Farmer, textile artist
With roots in classical music, professional beauty and a lifelong obsession with the tactility of fabrics and yarns, Samantha makes pieces to wear, to display, and to make your own.
Samantha received her Bachelor of Music from Western Washington University, Master of Music from DePaul University, owned a successful hairdressing business with roots in session and photographic hair and makeup work, and is now chasing her lifelong dream of creating textile art using sustainable, foraged and reclaimed materials.
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