🗓 Saturday, September 13 | ⏰ 1 - 3pm
📍 Start: The Weavers Bar, Paisley | End: Elderslie Tune-Up Station
Join artist India Boxall (@paperseeps) for a slow-paced, sensory-rich foraging walk along the cycle route from Paisley to Elderslie.
Together, we’ll explore the plants growing along the route, learning about their dye potential and traditional uses. We will collect and prep what we find using notebooks, bags, and simple presses.
At the Elderslie Tune-Up Station, we’ll try out the plant hammering technique — pressing leaves and flowers into fabric to create beautiful, nature-stamped designs.
This hands-on workshop is perfect for all ages — no experience needed. You’ll leave with your own pressed samples, some ground plant pigments, and ideas to try natural dyeing at home.
No experience needed. Just curiosity, comfortable shoes, and a sense of adventure!
Led by India Boxall
India’s focus on textiles, including knitting with natural fibres, employing embroidery techniques, and working with salvaged scrap fabrics and yarns, lingers on matter-ing and material dialogues.
She investigates themes of resistance, refraction, and the imagined material histories embedded in organic matter. Her work often takes the form of assemblages, integrating textiles with drawing, sculpture, text, and digital media.
By working with unconventional materials and processes, she invites audiences to consider the entanglement of the personal, the ecological, and the cultural.
She is currently undertaking the Threads Residency until early 2026 at Johnstone Textile Space, with funding from Creative Scotland's Open Fund.
