Botanical printing & screen printing on fabric with natural dyes

Explore botanical printing and screen printing with natural dyes on this two day course with Rachele Dickie. Combining plant impressions with printed designs, you will build layers of colour and pattern on fabric.

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Begin with botanical contact printing, learning to prepare and mordant fabric, bundle leaves and plants, and enhance their colours with natural dyes. On the second day, explore dyeing and fixing colour before mixing natural dye extracts into thickened printing pastes. Use these to screen print over your botanical samples, with your own hand cut stencils or Rachele’s designs.

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Discover how simple or satisfyingly scientific and sustainable these processes can be, taking home your printed fabrics and the confidence to continue experimenting at home.

2-3 October 2027

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Or join Rachele for two days of Katagami,

a Japanese printing technique using indigo

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£295

plus £25 for materials​

Tea, coffee and tasty lunch included in your course price 
 

We also offer accommodation & evening meals

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This course is aimed at adults, aged 18yrs + and is suitable for beginners to those with experience

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Please be sure to read terms & conditions before you book

Rachele Dickie is a textile artist, passionate about print and inspired by nature. She became interested in natural dyeing and Japanese textiles whilst studying for a textiles HND making a traditional kimono and researching Japanese crafts.

Exploring indigo dyeing with resist, she came across Katagami when looking for a better resist recipe and was hooked by the intricate designs that could be achieved with the Japanese paste. It fitted well with her love of pattern and she enjoys the mindfulness of the detailed, precise cutting required for preparing stencils, not to mention the beautiful rich blues that can be achieved with the indigo dye. Rachele recently took a trip to Japan visiting various arts and crafts museums and completed a workshop with a Japanese master craftsman.