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DYEING COURSES

This is where we begin. By creating colour on yarn, fibre, or fabric, we create the materials that we work with in all our other crafts. If you are interested in learning acid dyeing, please start with Dyeing Intentional Colour and then go onto Dyeing Complex Colour. If you want to learn how to dye cotton and cellulose fibres, please start with Fundamentals of Fibre Reactive Dyes and then take a look at Shibori Dyeing for more techniques. And if you want to learn natural dyeing, begin with Natural Dyeing Basics.

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    Dyeing Complex Colour
    48 Lessons

    Dyeing Complex Colour

    Felicia Lo
    Discover new ways to add complexity and richness to your hand-dyed colourways using acid dyes and protein-based fibres. This course builds upon our foundation of creating intentional colour and explores hand-dyeing techniques to add that elusive depth and richness that makes colours sing.
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    Hand-dyed yarn mini-skeins
    34 Lessons

    Dyeing Intentional Colour

    Felicia Lo
    <p>Create your own unapologetic and unique hand-dyed yarns and colourways using acid dyes and protein-based fibres with confidence and intention</p>
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    42201 Eco printing
    2 Lessons

    Eco Printing with Natural Dyes

    Caitlin ffrench
    <p>Join in learning eco printing, or contact printing, with Caitlin ffrench! Learn about the different methods of getting dye stuff, either wildcrafted, homegrown or store bought, to make prints of leaves and flowers onto fabric, yarn and knitted items. Whether you’d like to dye onto a sock yarn blank, and then knit, weave or crochet from this, or perhaps print directly onto a finished object you’ve already made, you'll learn all the steps needed to enjoy this beautiful form of natural dyeing!</p>
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    Canning jars with hand-dyed yarn
    13 Lessons

    Fundamentals of Fibre Reactive Dyes

    Felicia Lo
    Learn the basics of dyeing cellulose yarns and fabrics like cotton, linen, and hemp with fibre reactive dyes. Coming from a strong background in working with acid dyes, Felicia Lo will be looking at how fibre reactive dyes are different from acid dyes and how the processes differ.
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    Handpainting with Natural Dyes
    2 Lessons

    Handpainting with Natural Dyes

    Kathy Hattori
    Yarn painting is one of the easiest ways to put natural colour on yarn. The colour choices are endless and the way that colour moves through the skein is fascinating and beautiful to our eye. Learn to handpaint yarns and fibres with natural dyes.
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    Indigo Dyeing
    1 Lesson

    Indigo Dyeing

    Kathy Hattori
    <p>Join in the magical world of indigo dyeing with Kathy Hattori of Botanical Colors! In this presentation, learn about working with indigo dyes and creating an indigo vat, including tips and troubleshooting help, followed by a Q&A session at the end.</p>
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    Natural Dyeing basics NDB colour wheel
    31 Lessons

    Natural Dyeing Basics

    Caitlin ffrench
    <p class="p1">Learn how to use natural dyes with plant and animal based fibres. Instructor Caitlin ffrench guides you through all the steps of natural dyeing – how to scour, mordant and dye your materials (and the importance behind each step), along with the best dyeing practices for your home or studio set-up. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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    Kamala 10% WOF
    12 Lessons

    Natural Dyeing Study Group

    Felicia Lo
    A 10-week study group plan to work through the SOS natural dyeing courses and content on a week-by-week basis.
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    Naturally dyed mini-skeins by Caitlin ffrench
    1 Lesson

    Plant a Natural Dye Garden

    Caitlin ffrench
    Join in learning to grow your own dye garden and safe wildcrafting natural dye plants with Caitlin ffrench.
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    Shibori Dyeing Basics
    11 Lessons

    Shibori Dyeing Basics

    Mariana Frochtengarten
    <p>Shibori is a Japanese resist dyeing technique that employs folding, binding, clamping, and pole wrapping to create areas of resist. This dye process can be used to create repeated patterns in fabric and when worked in multiple layers of dye, can produce intricate, mesmerizing fields of colour. Join Mariana in this workshop to discover the basics of Shibori with fibre reactive dyes!</p>
  • Start Course
    Dyeing Complex Colour
    48 Lessons

    Dyeing Complex Colour

    Felicia Lo
    Discover new ways to add complexity and richness to your hand-dyed colourways using acid dyes and protein-based fibres. This course builds upon our foundation of creating intentional colour and explores hand-dyeing techniques to add that elusive depth and richness that makes colours sing.
  • Start Course
    Hand-dyed yarn mini-skeins
    34 Lessons

    Dyeing Intentional Colour

    Felicia Lo
    <p>Create your own unapologetic and unique hand-dyed yarns and colourways using acid dyes and protein-based fibres with confidence and intention</p>
  • Start Course
    42201 Eco printing
    2 Lessons

    Eco Printing with Natural Dyes

    Caitlin ffrench
    <p>Join in learning eco printing, or contact printing, with Caitlin ffrench! Learn about the different methods of getting dye stuff, either wildcrafted, homegrown or store bought, to make prints of leaves and flowers onto fabric, yarn and knitted items. Whether you’d like to dye onto a sock yarn blank, and then knit, weave or crochet from this, or perhaps print directly onto a finished object you’ve already made, you'll learn all the steps needed to enjoy this beautiful form of natural dyeing!</p>
  • Start Course
    Canning jars with hand-dyed yarn
    13 Lessons

    Fundamentals of Fibre Reactive Dyes

    Felicia Lo
    Learn the basics of dyeing cellulose yarns and fabrics like cotton, linen, and hemp with fibre reactive dyes. Coming from a strong background in working with acid dyes, Felicia Lo will be looking at how fibre reactive dyes are different from acid dyes and how the processes differ.
  • Start Course
    Handpainting with Natural Dyes
    2 Lessons

    Handpainting with Natural Dyes

    Kathy Hattori
    Yarn painting is one of the easiest ways to put natural colour on yarn. The colour choices are endless and the way that colour moves through the skein is fascinating and beautiful to our eye. Learn to handpaint yarns and fibres with natural dyes.
  • Start Course
    Indigo Dyeing
    1 Lesson

    Indigo Dyeing

    Kathy Hattori
    <p>Join in the magical world of indigo dyeing with Kathy Hattori of Botanical Colors! In this presentation, learn about working with indigo dyes and creating an indigo vat, including tips and troubleshooting help, followed by a Q&A session at the end.</p>
  • Start Course
    Natural Dyeing basics NDB colour wheel
    31 Lessons

    Natural Dyeing Basics

    Caitlin ffrench
    <p class="p1">Learn how to use natural dyes with plant and animal based fibres. Instructor Caitlin ffrench guides you through all the steps of natural dyeing – how to scour, mordant and dye your materials (and the importance behind each step), along with the best dyeing practices for your home or studio set-up. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
  • Start Course
    Kamala 10% WOF
    12 Lessons

    Natural Dyeing Study Group

    Felicia Lo
    A 10-week study group plan to work through the SOS natural dyeing courses and content on a week-by-week basis.
  • Start Course
    Naturally dyed mini-skeins by Caitlin ffrench
    1 Lesson

    Plant a Natural Dye Garden

    Caitlin ffrench
    Join in learning to grow your own dye garden and safe wildcrafting natural dye plants with Caitlin ffrench.
  • Start Course
    Shibori Dyeing Basics
    11 Lessons

    Shibori Dyeing Basics

    Mariana Frochtengarten
    <p>Shibori is a Japanese resist dyeing technique that employs folding, binding, clamping, and pole wrapping to create areas of resist. This dye process can be used to create repeated patterns in fabric and when worked in multiple layers of dye, can produce intricate, mesmerizing fields of colour. Join Mariana in this workshop to discover the basics of Shibori with fibre reactive dyes!</p>

DYEING LEARNING PATH

Our courses are designed for dyers of all levels. We have created courses to cover dyeing with wool and silk (acid dyeing), cotton and cellulose fibres (fibre reactive dyeing), and also courses that explore dyeing with natural plant-based dyes and indigo. We've organized the courses in a curated path so you can get from where you are to where you want to be.

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Acid Dyeing

Want to learn to dye wool and silk yarn and fibre? Start with acid dyes which are designed for protein fibres and learn how dyes are mixed, blended, and diluted to create the hues and depths of shade that you want in your yarn. After completing this achievement, you'll be able to create your own solid shade, tonal, handpainted, low-water immersion, and even self-striping yarns.

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Fibre Reactive Dyeing

Discover ways of dyeing with cotton yarns and fabrics using the very versatile and vibrant fibre reactive dyes. In these courses, you'll learn how the fibre reactive dye process works and how it differs from acid dyes. You'll also learn ways of layering dyes on cloth together with resist dyeing techniques to produce modern, multi-dimensional colour.

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Leaves, natural dyeing badge

Natural Dyeing

The range of colours that can be produced with natural dyes has a cohesiveness and harmony that roots us to our environment. Join us as we dive into learning natural dyeing with plants, roots, leaves, and extracts. We discover immersion dyeing and handpainting with natural dyes as well as indigo dyeing. 

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