Many of you have followed along on our journey of growing and dyeing with japanese indigo. Many of you even joined the Pembina Fibreshed’s community indigo project this year and you are growing your own indigo. How exciting and inspiring to have so many fibre artists, gardeners and natural dyers growing this plant here in our Province, even with our sometimes challenging growing season. The process of extracting indigo pigment is a little more complicated than other forms of natural dyeing, we would love to share our learnings and experiences with you!
We need to do our first indigo harvest on the farm and thought it would be a great opportunity to do a demonstrations on processing indigo. This is a hands on demonstration on doing fresh leaf indigo dyeing and also the cold water extraction method.
This will be a hands on demonstration, but not a natural dyeing class. You will learn how to dye with fresh indigo leaves and also how to extract pigment using the cold water method. This class does not include supplies, or yarn/fibre.
Saturday, July 18
2pm - 4pm
Long Way Homestead Fibre Farm and Wool Mill
Cost: $40
For those involved in the Pembina Fibreshed Community Indigo Project a similar demonstration and harvest will occur for free later in the summer (folks involved are welcome to attend both or just the PF event).
We will be working outside, in a shaded area, but it could be hot, so bring water. There is an onsite washroom (not wheelchair accessible) and we will limit numbers to 25 to comply with the Manitoba Covid-19 Health requirements and to ensure the safety of all those that attend.
We will also be doing dye garden tours (and of course the sheep/lambs will be around for snuggles too)!
To attend please register below: