Colour from Plants and your Compost for Beginners

This workshop is a hands-on natural dye workshop designed for beginners. Annamarie Hatcher and Heather Thorne will lead you through the dyeing process for wool including safety procedures, dye materials and mordanting, modifying natural colours post dyeing, and final handling of your dyed samples.

Samples for dyeing, dye materials, and equipment for dyeing will be provided for use in this workshop.

Materials participants need to bring:

• Wear old clothes or an apron because dye changes the colour of things permanently! 
• Dress appropriately for the weather conditions on workshop day because we will be outside/inside the Carriage House, which is unheated.
• Rubber gloves- type for washing dishes are adequate
  
• Mask (Covid type) is adequate
  
• Lunch and beverage
  
• Insect repellent
  
• 20 sandwich size ziplock bags
  
• Pen/permanent marker to write on the bags
  
• Paper/pen for taking notes

Registration cost: $13 per person*

Maximum participants: 5

How to Register: Registration is open to ASH members only, and you must login with your membership to view the registration link on the event listing page. Registration will close the Wednesday before the workshop, or when the workshop is full.

Please remember to bring your lunch. Coffee and Tea will not be available on site for this workshop, but the bathroom in the main house will be available for us to use. 

If you have any questions about the hands-on, contact Lorna Ash at 902-240-7479

* Please note that the registration fee is non-refundable. If participants cancel or no show, they forfeit the registration fee.  If you choose to pay by e-transfer, cheque or cash, payment must be received 7 days before the workshop or your registration will be cancelled. If ASH cancels or postpones the workshop, the workshop fee will be applied as a credit on participants accounts for future workshops..