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Dyeing & Ink Making Workshops

  • The Nest Creative Space 76-82 Botany Road Alexandria, NSW, 2015 (map)

from $155.00

We are finally coming to Sydney! Hosted at The Nest Creative Space in Alexandria, we invite you to our Spring natural dyeing workshops. Suitable for complete beginners, this workshop will cover a range of fun techniques including:

  • Bundle-dyeing (or eco-printing)

  • Dyeing with food waste

  • Dyeing with leaves and flowers

  • Dyeing with natural extracts and powders

  • Using plant and protein fibres

  • Natural ink making

Included in the workshop:

  • 1 x 60 x 60cm silk scarf to dye

  • An abundance of leaves and flowers and other plants

  • Natural dye extracts and powders

  • Natural inks to play with on paper

  • Tea & snacks

What you need to bring:

  • Closed-toe shoes

  • 1-2 small clean, wet white item from home that we can mordant and dye together (preferably silk but can also be cotton, linen, hemp or bamboo)

  • A plastic bag or green bag for taking home your wet fabric

  • Any flowers, leaves, onion skins or other plants from home that you’d like to try dyeing with

Join Katie from Studio Tinta for 3 hours of creative fun and go home with your very own hand-dyed textiles.

This will be an intimate group of 12 people maximum.

20% discount when you bring a friend! Select ‘two tickets’ from the dropdown menu below.