Ditchling Dye Day March 2019
For our last workshop, we set up two indigo vats and an iron/soda dye bath. Ferrous sulphate in solution. fabrics were immersed in this warm solution …
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17 Dec
Ditchling Workshop December 16th
Ditchling Workshop December 16th
Setting up for alkaline extraction method with madder root – adding washing soda And then testing for the ph – looking for ph 9-10 but we …
19 Nov
Making Black: Ditchling November 18th
Making Black: Ditchling November 18th
Using tannin and iron to make black. Samples are dipped, exposed and redipped to achieve the dark colour. Overdying samples with Indigo Some examples of the eco …
17 Sep
Ditchling Dye Day
Ditchling Dye Day
Our September workshop was spent mostly processing and dyeing with fresh and dried indigo leaves, fresh woad leaves and also with Saxon blue dye. Woad leaves …
16 Jul
July Workshop at Ditchling
July Workshop at Ditchling
We set up three dye pots in the morning for – cochineal, madder and weld For the madder we used recipe 10 in “Colours From Nature” And …
18 Jun
Ditchling Workshop June 17th
Ditchling Workshop June 17th
A busy but fun day at Ditchling with Jenny Dean where we set up 4 dye pots this time: Logwood (Purple), Sappanwood (pink red) and …
21 May
May at Ditchling
May at Ditchling
Dyeing with cutch, rhubarb root and alkanet root in the spring sunshine. colour from rhubarb root samples of alkanna, cutch and rhubarb root
22 Apr
Walnut hulls and leaves
Walnut hulls and leaves
This was the second session at Ditchling Museum with Jenny Dean and today, the dye event was using walnut husks and leaves on a variety …
19 Mar
workshop 1 – buckthorn
workshop 1 – buckthorn
Week 1 and an introduction to this year long, natural dye course with Jenny Dean. Learnt a lot this week about basic set up and process: …
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