Join natural dyer Kate Turnbull as she recreates colours from our tapestry’s using natural dyes as part of ‘Make and Mend May’ at Kelmscott Manor – a month of activities exploring themes of creativity, sustainability, and repairability as part of a new project to conserve the Manor’s historic tapestries.
Recreating the colours of the tapestry, the workshop will involve dyeing silk and wool threads that closely match the tapestry using traditional dye plants like madder, weld, walnut and indigo. Participants will compare their dyed samples to images the tapestries, gaining insight into colour matching and natural pigment shifts over time.
Throughout May there will be workshops on weaving, natural dyeing, and more to celebrate the tapestries and connect with William Morris’s ethos of making things that last.
Free, all ages and abilities welcome, drop-in between 12-4pm.
