Saturday, 24 August

From Blue to Green, Indigo dye residence at The Indigo Plot

Spend two days learning how to create and use the colours yellow, blue and green on natural fibre out of Indigo, Woad, Yellow grown dyes

By Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw @ The Lansdowne House

Date and time

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 10:00 - Sun, 25 Aug 2024 17:00 GMT+1

Location

The Lansdowne House of Stencils

20 LANSDOWNE CRESCENT GLASGOW G20 6NG United Kingdom

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About this event

1 day 7 hours

Weekend Course: Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 August 2024
Day 1: 10am to 5.00pm
Day 2: 10am to 5.00pm
The Lansdowne House studio, Glasgow West end and The Indigo plot

This two day immersive course in Indigo pigment and Yellow dye is about gaining hands on knowledge on working with plant to secure colour on cloth.

The plants used will be collected on the Glasgow based #theindigoplot at the Glasgow Botanical garden and the work carried out in The Lansdowne House studio both in the West of Glasgow.

We will collect colour and use it to create, blue, yellow and green shades on silk and linen material. We will study the different way of using Indigo pigment, work with both Japanese Indigo and Woad pigment and different types of fibers. The recipes used are tried and tested traditional natural dyes recipees and can be duplicated.

You will live with a number of samples and sound knowledge about working directly with plant for colour.

You can be a complete beginner on this class.

The unique class is made possible by the availability of Fresh plant material grown @ #theindigoplot the natural dye garden of Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw, dye and textile artist. The plants are grown there by a group of volunteers. Elisabeth also offers an option to local commited dyers to grow Indigo and Woad at home with her in her online course :

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-indigo-plot-grow-indigo-and-woad-and-make-colour-2024-tickets-716586388177

During the week end we will work with both fresh extraction and dry pigment to be able to compare the pigment count.

We will learn to extract cold and hot methods pigment and set up an Indigo vat for blue.

We will work with fresh and dry plants to colour fibre yellow and learn about fibre preparation (mordant)

We finaly look at options to create green coloured cloth.

Our samples will be cleaned and neutralised and all colours obtaines will be colourfast.

Samples will be splits between participants and you will be given some notes to be able to duplicate those techniques.

`There will be an option to dye some additional pieces you will have with you wether it is yarn or fabric.

I welcome inquisitive students and problem solving is one great feature of this "residency"

During the two days we will make tea and coffee together and take breaks but i can not provide food. There is a local supermarket/deli for sandwiches/salads just around the corner. I would recommend you bring something in with you to avoid wasting valuable time at lunchtime break.

Our community is kept alive via a FB group which allows us to keep the dialogue going after the workshop is over.

For any information please be in touch bettysbeautifullife@gmail.com

There is no accomodation linked with this but I can advise of local and cheap accomodation.

Organised by

Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw @ The Lansdowne House

I have a long history with working with paint and paper and recreating historic schemes in listed buildings. My love for contact prints has come from my travels in Asia. I work with Eco Printing, Eco Dyeing, Indigo Dyeing, Stencilling.

I love initiating creativity in my course participants. I am passionate about creating art in a sustainable way, I love reusing, recycling, I work in a circular Economy and makes the best of my local resources in Art with participants coming from the whole world.

I teach in person and online live using the zoom platform. I like engaging in long term communities courses/projects. As we learn to work with each other we create better projects... outcomes...

I currently work on two global/local projects based on Ecodyeing/printing :

#Theindigoplot circa 2021 is about growing Japanese Indigo small scale and dyeing from it as well as understanding the meaning of the Indigo production/vat. I grow Japanese Indigo in Scotland with a group of "Home growers and in the grounds of The Glasgow Botanical Garden. I also run a 9 months course "The Indigo diaries" with a group of online participants where we grow together before experiencing a number of ways of dyeing with our Fresh Persicaria Tinctoria leaves and our Indigo Pigment. If you want to register your interest for the 2023 group please be in touch by email bettysbeautifullife@gmail.com

#thetruecolourofthecotinus circa 2020 is about Botanical printing the Cotinus leaves (and new for 2022 extracting pigment from the leaves) ... created as an online project to connect hundreds of participants locked down at home in the spring of 2020 we have learned to understand our mordants and create blue out of our leaves... but also create beautiful prints out of just the one plant The Cotinus. In 2022 I will add the Euphorbia Cotonalia plant to the testing to welcome participants from the Southern Hemisphere. We will extract pigments to make printing paste and water colour. The group is supported by a FB page and has an ongoing outcome with regular short online workshops.

I have in the past been involved in projects with, The House for an Art Lover, Glasgow Museums, Granton Hub, National Trust for Scotland, The Willow Tea rooms Trust, a number of primary and secondary schools in Scotland. I run collaborations with local artists.

I will run private workshops in my studio or your premises for private groups (corporate excertises or hens parties ...)

In my workshops you will learn a creative technique and complete a creative project, you will go home wih a unique object.. you made ! Today you make your own future happy memories !

#Bettysbeautifullife