Name: Botanical Printing Workshop
Start: 2025-08-28T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-08-28T16:00:00+01:00
Location: 24 high street, SA626SD St David's, United Kingdom

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 with Susan, D Martin, 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! This workshop is not suitable for children, and has a minimum age limit of 16 years of age.
For more information and booking please visit our website.
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.