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17th and 19th October 2019 
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School of Sustainability at The Bukky Baldwin Shop
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The Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
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Fancy learning how to extract colour from botanical ingredients creating a wide variety of shades, patterns and textures onto swatches of natural fabrics?  Come and join me!
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Natural Dyes an Exploration 
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This workshop will all be about experimentation and play. We will be working with the bundle technique, working with seasonal and readily available natural ingredients, this workshop is designed for you to explore these techniques and experiment to create seasonal colours on cloth.

A starting point

An interaction with fabric.

An interaction with the outside, 

tying

looping

hanging

placing

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a physical approach

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Collecting ingredients 

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hanging, arranging & matching 

do they sit together? 

do they communicate?

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boiling, steaming, pressing. 

collecting again. 

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starting to become a cycle 

a cycle of ingredients

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like a growth 

naturally growing 

becoming a space 

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Earthly pigment -

bleeding

fighting

falling

resting

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a growth

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Spotting spaces

out in the landscape 

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drawn, circular

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ritual,

cycle,

continuity 

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Burnt ground,  new material to draw

 

from landscape to fabric

a connection in colour 

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