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AYURVASTRA: The Fabric of Yoga – a creative retreat exploring sustainable clothing as spiritual practice

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SUPER EXCITED to announce this!

The Wild Dyery’s first textile and yoga retreat to beautiful Snowdonia next June! This event just doesn’t exist anywhere else and will explore the creation of sustainable clothing as part of a spiritual practise.

Not only will you get to try natural dyeing, eco-printing and indigo shibori in one weekend but you’ll be totally chilled out at the end due to some delicious yoga practise in this area of outstanding natural beauty.

You’ll leave with your own plant dyed yoga clothing, coloured using locally foraged herbal dyes and the knowledge to continue a natural dye practice at home.

N.B. Early booking by cheque is advised to avoid eventbrite fees which are included in the online listing below..

Please register your interest by joining the… AYURVASTRA EVENT PAGE

OR if this sings to your heart and soul and you know you need a place right now,...

Interview: with James Wood

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James Wood is a recent graduate now working on ‘The Foraged Book Project’ a collaboration with 30 artists who are creating a unique handcrafted book entirely from wild and foraged materials. He runs foraging, natural dyeing and paint making workshops in North West England.

I attended his “Dye and Paint Making” workshop on 9th May where we collected local dye plants, extracted and modified their colours on fabric samples and then created pigment and paints to take home. It was a fun and educational day and James kindly agreed to being interviewed afterwards.

How did you get into natural dyeing?

I got into natural dyeing through foraging which I started during my second year at University. The main reason was because I was producing art work. I was painting, making artwork about sustainability but at the time I was using store bought paints which were made from synthetic colours and petroleum based...

AYURVASTRA: The Fabric of Yoga – a creative retreat exploring sustainable clothing as spiritual practice

Interview: with James Wood

Interview with James Wood from The Foraged Book Project

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