Passing on a love of natural colour to the next generation
| I spend a lot of my time chatting to students located all over the world as I support them through their online trainings, so it was lovely to be contacted by someone a lot close to home with an invite to meet in person. Alex Lowman is the course leader on the Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Runshaw Adult College in Chorley, Lancashire. She took part in last year's inaugural run of Natural Fabric Dyeing: Colour, Print and Pattern and has since inspired a new generation of creatives to try plant dyes. Alex recently invited me to attend the private view of her students' graduation work and I was thrilled to accept. |  |
It was so lovely to meet her in person last week, along with her students whom she has so obviously inspired to produce brilliant work.
Alex's feedback about the training she took was really complimentary so it's especially rewarding for me to realise that her love of the work she did with me has now passed on to these young designers. Take...
Do you feel like you missed the boat?
Registration is re-opening!
*SIGN UP BEFORE THE END OF APRIL AND PAY JUST £599 USING THE DISCOUNT CODE: NFDCATCHUP
Did you miss the sign up to this year's online training? Module 1 of 'Natural Fabric Dyeing: Colour, Print and Pattern' took place earlier this year but after many requests, I've decided to allow 'on demand' instant access for those of you who'd like to catch-up before Module 2 starts.
I've had so many people emailing me to say they only just found out about the course and asking if they could sign up now, even though Module 1 has ended that I had to do something to help. They've realised too late that there's only one chance to take this once a year training and feel like they've missed the boat. It is a long time to wait until the next run in 2019, so after much deliberation, I've re-opened registration as of now!
I had to think long and hard about this because I am totally convinced that people enjoy more success if they study online with the...
Announcing our NEW ONLINE TRAINING!
Natural Fabric Dyeing: Eco Colour, Print and Pattern Online Training
Workshop Schedule 2017
I’ve just updated The Wild Dyery’s EVENTS PAGE with all our live workshops next year. It’s very exciting getting everything planned out but the major event, our exciting new online home study course isn’t included just yet as it’s still under wraps… we’ll announce more next week… not long to wait!
In the meantime, visit the events page for first choice on workshops next year. There will be 6 Indigo Socials, 5 Eco-Colour (formerly called Eco-Spectrum) and 3 Eco-Printing workshops plus our amazing Ayurvastra retreat. Places are limited to 14 for full day workshops and 8 for the evening Indigo Socials so there are only a small number of people who will be able to train with us next year and these places will fill up fast.
If you’d like to gift a workshop to a loved one for Christmas, we can prepare a beautiful ticket so you have something to wrap or put in a card. Just CONTACT US to arrange the perfect gift for the crafty...
Open Call: for artists/makers using natural fibres and plant dyes
OPEN CALL: are you a textile artist or maker producing beautiful work using natural fibres and plant dyes? Do you have or know of any exquisite dye journals, gardens or clothing? Are you a natural dye enthusiast who knows where to find the world’s finest practitioners of natural dyeing? The Wild Dyery will soon be showcasing the very best examples and would appreciate you contacting us via our contact page, sharing this message with those who may be interested in being featured or messaging with a link to yours or your favourite artist/makers website.
p.s. the samples in the picture are from my dye journal. Background, unmordanted wool gauze + woad, top stripe, mordanted wool gauze + woad and bottom stripe, mordanted silk + woad : )
We’re part of the Wirral Open Studios Tour
Live Indigo Shibori (tie-dye) demonstrations
‘GRAND’ Opening of The Wild Dyery
Come and celebrate with a glass of cheap fizz!
We have PREMISES!
The Wild Dyery & Natural Crafts Studio coming soon!
Exhibition: The Fabric of India
I took the fast train to London last Friday to catch the highly acclaimed ‘Fabric of India’ exhibition which closes today.
Drawn by reports of natural dyeing goodness, I discovered far more to intrigue and inspire me.
Informative videos were included to give further context to the processes involved in the production of each piece so in the absence of photographs which weren’t allowed (apart from the rebel image above!) I’ve included these all together in this article in the hope that they’ll remain online after the exhibition closes.
The videos were vital because in the West we are so used to seeing Indian textiles, often being sold cheaply on the high street (or reproduced in digital versions) that we might assume the pieces had been mass produced in a factory. The videos showed the incredible effort, time and devotion involved in the following techniques which are such an intrinsic part of the Indian heritage.
EXCITED to announce The Wild Dyery’s FIRST LIVE workshop
