Botanical Printing Workshop with Susan D Martin £45

Botanical printing is a natural dye technique where leaves are placed on paper or fabric and heated to release the dyes inside them to make images.

In this 3 hour workshop you will be using seasonal leaves gathered in Pembrokeshire to create your own designs. These can be used for special greetings cards and printed fabrics (which make a great starting point for embroidery!).  All materials will be supplied and preprepared for you, using a mordanting process which allows the dyes to bond to the fabrics – explanations will be given as we go along.

Please bring with you an apron or old clothes!

Important Notes:

• This workshop is not suitable for children, and has a minimum age limit of 16 years of age.
• In order to cover our costs we need to sell a minimum of 5 places per workshop. Should we not reach our minimum numbers we will unfortunately have to cancel the event. Please check your spam/junk email folders the day before your event to ensure we have not contacted you about a potential cancellation.
• Details on where to meet will automatically be emailed to you with your order confirmation, so please check your emails (including spam/junk folders!). Should you not receive this within a day of ordering, please get in touch with us.
• Please bring an apron or old clothes with you.
• Hot drinks will be available to purchase from our Really Wild shop (situated next to our course room).

Price: £45 per person

About Susan D Martin:

Susan is a Textile designer specialising in natural dyeing, mainly using plants she grows in her garden or collects in a local woodland. For the last 10 years she has helped to maintain the Dye Garden at the National Wool Museum in Drefach Felindre.  In 2022 she contributed to a collaborative artwork created by an international group of natural dye artists for the Rockfield Centre in Oban and gave an online talk in their “Conversations with Artists” series. She has been teaching textile courses for the last 15 years and continues to be endlessly fascinated by the potential of plants.