WSA Sustainable Luxury Textiles

We were invited to Winchester School of Art to deliver bespoke training, advising on the set up of their sustainable natural dye-print labs. The BA Textiles department are taking the hugely exciting leap of transitioning from chemical to natural dyestuffs. We taught the staff how to forage for dye-plants (handily next to a park, and water meadows), and then how to make natural dyes into coloured vats and print-pastes. We developed techniques for them to use when teaching their new cohort of students; testing new plant colours, designing with natural dyes, and exploring warp and weave dyeing process.

An inventive and immersive 3-days; collecting plants for experimential colour making, printing onto naturally dyed warps with modifiers, and playfully dyeing and painting onto wood.