Natural Dye Workshop - Eucalyptus and Local Native Plants

Join textile artist Samorn Sanixay for a day of fabric and wood dyeing with local native plants and eucalypts.


Among the Trees
Among the Trees
5.0 (189)
4k followers

6 hours Class size 1 to 10 guests

$300 - $500 (Afterpay available)
($300 for , $500 for Both Days (same techniques, different fabrics))

Sydney
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Craft
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Textiles
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Shibori and Fabric Dyeing
Samorn will introduce you to a world of natural dyeing where you will learn traditional methods used by weavers and textile artisans of Laos. Learn about local Australian native plants, berries, and flowers, their dyeing properties, how we extract the colour and methods used to obtain different shades of pigments.
How to keep and store dyes for use out of season and best dyes for the different natural fibres.
Finally, the traditional techniques we use to set our dyes.
In this hands-on course, you will explore a variety of natural hand dyeing and colour application techniques and create your own fabulous colours on natural fabrics using natural methods and materials.
This course is open to students 13 and older. Among The Trees accepts students under 18 in two groups:
  • Students 13-15 years of age must attend all courses with a parent or guardian. This parent or guardian must also purchase a place in the course and take part. One parent/guardian is able to attend with multiple students.
  • Students 16-17 years of age may attend a course without a parent or guardian present.
You can read our full Child Safe Policy on the booking page.

Knowledge required
Beginner-friendly. This workshop is for people with little to no experience with dyeing or printing, looking for an introduction to the craft. The course includes an element of physicality and most of the work is carried out standing up.
We aim to make the courses as inclusive and accessible as possible, people living with a disability should notify ClassBento so that the appropriate accommodations can be made.
What you'll get
By the end of this course, you will have:
  • An appreciation of the many sources and properties of natural materials to create dyes
  • Learn how to extract vibrant colours from flowers and leaves for dyes, including identifying plants from around the neighbourhood, the kitchen, and the veggie patch that give colour.
  • Learned how to use natural materials to prepare and create natural dyes
  • Experimented with multicolour dyeing
  • Learned how to create different dyeing effects such as immersive dye baths and bundle dyeing to achieve prints.
  • Have used various techniques to dye silk, fabric, wool, calico, and wood
This course is taught using dyeing materials that are natural and non-toxic.
Location

Among The Trees - 27 Sydney Street, Marrickville NSW

This venue is within walking distance from Sydenham train station (800m).

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Among the Trees
Among the Trees

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Among the Trees is an ethical and sustainability based start-up for reclaimed timber located in Marrickville. 
Saving timber from demolitions or other discarded uses and making it available to the public through a retail timber shop and woodworking classes. Accessibility to wood doesn't just mean being wheelchair friendly (which we are), it also means helping customers understand how to use and source reclaimed timber. To make it as easy as possible to work with, we offer custom machining and glueing, so the timber in our store can be squared, resurfaced and cut to specific dimensions. We also help empower individuals to have the confidence to undertake woodworking projects by offering woodworking beginners classes that are taught with simple hand tools. 
 
Lumberyards and wood workshops can be intimidating sometimes, ATT is one of the few places that caters not only to architects, planners, homeowners as well as carpenters and tradespeople but also to customers that have little to no woodworking experience and are embarking on DIY and student projects or trying their hand at repair, renovating or building. 
Our workshop at Among The Trees is set up to be the perfect space to learn about hand tools, reclaimed timber, and woodworking. We’ve been hard at work collecting, restoring and tuning all the tools required to learn woodworking, and a few extra ones as well.
 
All-in-all, everyone that is interested in wood is welcome!
2025-01-03 15:00:00
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