Madder, Weld and Woad: The three primaries

Madder, Weld and Woad: The three primaries

This workshop is a celebration of three historically significant plants, madder, weld and woad. The workshop involves learning about the importance of these plants through time and how they were used in both artwork creation and the dyeing of fabric for thousands of years.

Together these plants create the primary colour trio, red, yellow and blue and during this workshop you will experience how a whole colour spectrum can be achieved from these three initial sources.

Throughout the day there will be demonstrations of some of the methods of how colour can be obtained from these plants and methods of turning them into dyes, inks and pigments (including how to make rose madder and lake weld) with time to experiment with inks and paints made from them.

There will be plenty of examples of the different ways they were used including some samples of fabrics to see as well as looking at the plants themselves.

Participants will go home with inks made from these plants as well as samples of dyed fabric and colour swatches.

*We have bursary places available on each workshop for people on a low income, please do inquire, we are happy to answer any queries.

*One place is held for anyone living with a chronic condition. This scheme enables people to book in the knowledge that they can cancel on the day of the workshop, and receive a full refund. Please get in touch if you would like more information or to take this place.

This workshop will be run by Edward and Lucy from Old Mill Arts. They are usually based in Dumfries and Galloway but regularly travel teaching various aspects of historical material making alongside the craft of making art supplies from foraged sources. For more about Old Mill Arts please visit www.oldmillarts.com

To avoid extra fees please go to https://www.oldmillarts.com/workshops/p/madder-weld-woad-dilston

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