Our *NEW* 2019 online training dates are:-

Module 1: Colour - Mon 4th Feb - Sat 2nd Mar 2019 

Module 2: Print - Mon 3rd - Sat 29th June 2019 

Module 3: Pattern - Mon 7th Oct - Sat 2nd Nov 2019

Thanks to everyone who has been enquiring by email and social media about next year's online workshop dates and apologies for keeping everyone waiting! I'm happy to announce that registration has just opened with a FLASH SALE.

If you're one of the first lucky 50 students to book all three modules using the code: NFDFLASH150 you'll pay just £449 rather than the usual price for all three of £599 until midnight on 11th November 2018. That's a saving of £150 for the first to sign up! This offer is likely to get snapped up very quickly so please take advantage of it as soon as you can.

After 11:11:18 you can still get an Early Bird Discount until midnight on 31:12:18 by using code: NFD123EB

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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...

This year, I am working on a community project called ‘Re-Wild Wirral’ to help raise awareness about sustainable alternatives to buying cheap, fast fashion. I’m encouraging people to love their clothing a little longer by up-cycling it using locally foraged plant dyes and colourful food waste and if you live locally, you're invited to join in!

Do you have an old, white (or pale) cotton T-shirt that’s been languishing in the back of your wardrobe? Are you willing to join a multi-coloured group of other volunteers for a photo shoot on Sunday 22^nd April 2018? If so, would you like me to re-dye and pattern your T-shirt using the botanical colours our ancestors used and shibori tie-dye patterns, for free?

This project is a form of creative activism running in collaboration with the international ‘Fashion Revolution’ event this April. This organisation campaigns for a safer, cleaner fashion industry.

(Images © Fashion Revolution ...

Natural Fabric Dyeing: Eco Colour, Print and Pattern Online Training

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 : )

Sat 25th June 2016 10am – 4pm