In this session we will start to plan a dye garden, looking at the colours given by a range of dye plants and how to grow them.
You will also learn a method of dyeing natural fibres with plant dyes which is kind to the environment and easy to do at home as it does not require lots of special equipment. We will take a walk to the community garden to gather plant materials to dye a piece of material that you will bring along.
Deborah Gray is a textile artist based in Oban where she leads the EcoCreative Dye Garden at The Rockfield Centre. She runs workshops on natural dyeing, botanical printing, spinning, knitting and stitching in her own studios at Artspace Oban.
This workshop is part of KCT’s Green Health project which is funded by the Highland Communities Mental Health & Wellbeing Fund.