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Growing and Dyeing with Japanese Indigo | Alex's Natural Dye Pot
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Alex's Natural Dye Pot. Experiments with paper, cloth, earth and plant dyes. Growing and Dyeing with Japanese Indigo. Growing and Dyeing with Japanese Indigo. I’ve grown my first crop of Japanese indigo this year having been given a plant by my good friend, weaver and natural dyer Jane Meredith. For growing on a large scale look at Rowland Ricketts, Indigrowingblue. Dyeing using fresh leaves. Place your silk in the dye and move around for about an hour. The white silk will turn green then turquoise a...
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Workshops | Alex's Natural Dye Pot
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Alex's Natural Dye Pot. Experiments with paper, cloth, earth and plant dyes. Growing and Dyeing with Japanese Indigo. I’m afraid I am not planning any workshops for 2016 as we are looking to move somewhere with more space to work. I felt, due to the uncertain nature of the move, it would be unfair to plan and then have to move or cancel any workshops. At the end of the workshop you will produce various folded books as well as a textile piece to hold your findings. If students would like to bring personal...
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Eucalyptus Brews | Alex's Natural Dye Pot
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Alex's Natural Dye Pot. Experiments with paper, cloth, earth and plant dyes. Growing and Dyeing with Japanese Indigo. I’ve been busy playing with eucalyptus gifts from my family. E. cinerea from my sister, which produces wonderful red prints and E. globulus, from Kate, from a felled tree in Hampstead. E globulus has large leathery green sickle shaped leaves which gave colours from buttery yellow to pale orange and browns. Copper brings out the golden colours. Iron gives lovely outlines. January 31, 2015.
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alex madden | Alex's Natural Dye Pot
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Alex's Natural Dye Pot. Experiments with paper, cloth, earth and plant dyes. Growing and Dyeing with Japanese Indigo. Author Archives: alex madden. Image maker/taker, gardener, natural dyer, maker of marks, explorer, experimenter, teacher, mud mixer, dyer, indigo grower and paper folder. My aim is to produce the best colours and marks on cloth and paper using experimental and sustainable methods. Hardy Eucalyptus for printing in cooler climates. At our next meeting we bundled samples of each between piec...
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Everything is Turning Blue | Alex's Natural Dye Pot
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Alex's Natural Dye Pot. Experiments with paper, cloth, earth and plant dyes. Growing and Dyeing with Japanese Indigo. Everything is Turning Blue. I spent the night watching the country turn blue and the day watching my garden turn various shades of the same colour. The first indigo workshop of the year and blue seemed the general colour of our mood and the work. Wonderful combinations of leaves, mud, shibori and indigo made for a happy ending. Even the rain didn’t dent the creativity. May 8, 2015. If in ...
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Winter Landscapes | Alex's Natural Dye Pot
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Alex's Natural Dye Pot. Experiments with paper, cloth, earth and plant dyes. Growing and Dyeing with Japanese Indigo. I am gearing up for new works that will explore the world of trees. Recent experiments on papers, with winter leaves, bound and simmered have yielded tones that reflect the winter landscape. There is so little colour left in the windfalls. Yet they have given me, some lovely, ghostly leaf prints. Mark making with different potions are giving me ideas for bigger works. February 6, 2015.
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News and Events | Alex's Natural Dye Pot
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Alex's Natural Dye Pot. Experiments with paper, cloth, earth and plant dyes. Growing and Dyeing with Japanese Indigo. Oxfordshire Arts Week – 16th – 25th May 2015. The Stable Yard, Coleshill, SN6 7PT. Next door to Coleshill Organics. I will be exhibiting with three other artists and opening my studio and home during this week. Come and see my textile and paper works,. Painting by Duncan Clarke, printmaking by Polly Wickham,. And pottery by Noriko MacFarlane. For more information look at;. Notify me of ne...
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If in doubt, re-do, add blue or both | Alex's Natural Dye Pot
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Alex's Natural Dye Pot. Experiments with paper, cloth, earth and plant dyes. Growing and Dyeing with Japanese Indigo. If in doubt, re-do, add blue or both. Where did I read “if it isn’t beautiful it isn’t finished”? How many of us have piles if failed experiments or pieces that just don’t make the grade? Well this weekend some of us had a go at solving this little problem and it seems to me that bravery is what is required and perhaps a touch of blue! This entry was posted in natural dyes. And tagged eco...