Name: Natural Yarn Dyeing
Start: 2025-10-26T11:15:00+00:00
End: 2025-10-26T16:00:00+00:00
Location: Harris Museum & Art Gallery

Join dye expert Debbie Tomkies at The Harris as she shows you how to create beautiful colours from plant extracts and plants.
About this Event

This introductory session is suitable for complete beginners. For those who have done some natural dyeing previously, there is plenty to explore too!

We'll start with a short introduction to natural dyeing, where the dyes come from and what part of the plants we use for dyeing.

Debbie will then show you how to prepare a dyebath and try some fun natural dyeing techniques.

What's included:

All materials are included

About the classes

Debbie's dyeing sessions are fun and enjoyable. The pace is relaxed and there is time for questions and we make time for a brew too!

About Debbie:

Debbie has been a hand-dyer for over 30 years. She has worked with yarn companies, hand-dyeing yarns for commercial collections. She also ran successful yarn and fibre dye clubs for a number of years.

Debbie teaches dyeing and printing with both synthetic and natural dyes, including indigo and woad vat dyeing. She works with yarn, fabric and fibres.

Debbie is the author of 6 internationally published books, Hand-Dyed Yarn Craft Projects, Complete Knitting Skills, 250 Knitting Stitches, Knitting.Learn it.Love it, How to Knit and Cable Knitting Stitch Dictionary.

When she's not dyeing, designing, knitting or crocheting, you'll find her in the garden, tending her dye plants, enjoying a nice craft beer or hugging a big mug of builders' tea. And if you're out and about, she can often be found in the mosh pit at a gig or enjoying some folk music!