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Sunday 3rd of March 2019 10:00 am

Gain a greater appreciation of our environment through Natural Dye with Nicole Lamarche at Anapaca Hill, Gocup Road Gundagai

Join visiting natural dye artist, theatre costume and upcycling sustainability fashion expert designer Nicole Lamarche from Avignon France for a rare opportunity to experience one of her inspiring Nature Dye workshops.

Come explore the natural environment around our region, join us as we learn to identify and harvest different local plants, flowers and berries, explore their dyeing properties. Discover new and traditional methods to extract and to create different shades and colours. Using our kitchen waste, vegetable fruit scraps and peels to create zero waste natural pigments into environmentally friendly fashion. Find out how to prepare the textiles and create the recipes for dyeing.

WHAT THE WORKSHOP WILL INVOLVE
? Foraging through your surroundings, gather materials for the day workshop
? Identifying and selecting the local flowers, leaves, berries, roots medicinal herbs and tannin fibres for natural dye.
? Using kitchen waste: peels and vegetable scraps to create natural colours.
? Using textile fibres: cotton, silk, alpaca fleece
? Preparing the recipes for natural dye
? Learning different Natural Dye technique

YOUR TEACHER – Nicole Lamarche
Artist Nicole Lamarche discovered natural dye through her passion for fashion and designing theatre costumes.

For over 30 years Madam Lamarche has been known as the “godmother of natural dye”. Her quest for all natural colours has led her to exotic destinations from deep in Africa to New Zealand, Thailand, Laos, Taiwan to discover many indigenous cultures, traditions and techniques in natural dyes.

Infused with ancestral and multicultural know-how, she invites folks of all ages to engage in a life changing discovery of plants and their benefits.

DATE AND TIME
Sunday 3rd March 2019, 10am – 3pm
short lunch break in between

COURSE COSTS AND INCLUSIONS
General admission $100
Only 10 places are available, please message Sue Houstein if genuinely interested in booking a place.
Payment can be made via pay pal
paypal.me/SHoustein

Includes all materials, equipment, tuition, and a light refreshment

? One long cotton fabric
? One square silk fabric
? You are invited to bring your own natural fibres and old clothing to experiment.

“Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better “ – Albert Einstein

When
Sunday 3rd of March 2019
10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Where
Anapaca Hill, Gocup Road Gundagai
Anapaca Hill, NSW

Contact

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