Dyeing
Duration: 3 hours
Duration: 4 hours: Discovery of plant color through dye or indigo or ecoprint (plant imprint) or inks
Meals not included
Depending on the workshop chosen, you will make vegetable colors (inks), dye, learn to use a vat of indigo, make vegetable prints (ecoprint) from plants picked in the garden:
-Create a pattern, make your color from plants then dye your cotton or silk linen square
- Prepare a vat of vegetable indigo, to use it according to one of the methods you learned during the workshop; first by doing a few tests then by making your pattern on a silk or cotton scarf
- Make a color chart of vegetable inks from plants picked in the garden from which the color has been extracted, then thickened as desired to make inks of different colors.
- Create prints of plants picked up in the garden on fabric or paper: the plants are picked during a botanical walk where we learn to recognize tannin plants in particular which will give beautiful prints. Then they are placed on a silk scarf, which will be rolled up and put in the oven.
You leave with your creations
The workshop is located in a 17th century farm in the middle of lavender fields.
2km from the village of Pierrerue going towards Fontienne, large old farm between 2 lavender fields with the ilys workshop sign
2km from the village of Pierrerue going towards Fontienne, large old farm between 2 lavender fields with the ilys workshop sign
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