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.

Read more about Ayurvastra and get full details about this trail blazing new event.

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,...

I love getting parcels! This one was my reward for pledging to support a Kickstarter campaign for new manufacturers cooperative, Community Clothing.

The cooperative was established by Patrick Grant; Savile Row tailor, 'Great British Sewing Bee' judge and one of my former drinking companions on nights out round Liverpool!

I felt compelled to support this worthwhile initiative because it addresses the injustice of zero hours contracts, overseas slave labour and exploitation within the fashion and textiles industries by creating work for employees in the UK.

The tote is really well made and BIG but to be honest, didn't appeal to my inner bohemian so had to get a dunk in the indigo dye vat.

I may have ruined the utilitarian aesthetic but it made a really good beach bag and sunbathing pillow on my hols in Cala D'Or last week and now has the scent of sun, sea, sand and Malibu factor 6!

Community Clothing have created a small range of great quality items including...

Workshops for Parents and Children Summer 2016

Helen Melvin is a textile artist creating landscapes in felt, the fibres for which she colours herself in natural dyes mainly grown in her own working dye garden.

Over the last twenty years she has evolved her own unique style which is created not only by the way she felts using fabrics and fibres but also by her unique use of sustainable dyes.

Helen works with the ancient techniques of feltmaking and natural dyeing in a modern contemporary way which prioritises having a minimal impact on the environment.

Her landscapes are in private collections world wide including Australia, Switzerland, Belgium, USA and the Falkland Islands as well as throughout the UK.

She attracts many visitors to her Summer House gallery, working studio and dye garden when it opens for the annual 'North Wales Helfa Gelf' throughout September.

I was lucky enough to attend a one-to-one training in natural dyeing by Helen back in March 2013 at her lovely home in North Wales. You can find out more about her...

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