Natural Dyeing Workshop - Colour From Kitchen Waste
with Deborah Gray
Date: Saturday 26th February
Time: 2pm-5pm
Place: Hawthorn Studio, The Rockfield Centre
Age: 16+
Cost: £45 (includes materials cost for main project)
Natural dyeing textile workshop with Deborah Gray.
In this relaxed 3-hour workshop you will learn how to extract colours from two or three different kitchen waste items and fix them on cotton or linen fabric and wool yarn.
Textile artist Deborah Gray will teach a hot water method of natural dyeing, as well as how to prepare different fabrics for dyeing, and how to modify the colours. You will take away samples of the dyed fabrics.
Optional: you can dye yourself a silk scarf for an additional £9 (payable at the workshop).
Deborah Gray is a textile artist based in Oban. She is an experienced teacher of natural dyeing, as well as spinning, knitting and other textile crafts. She is one of the lead practitioners of the Eco-Creative Cluster and with a group of volunteers created a dye garden in the Rockfield Centre grounds in 2021.
