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Education:Year-Long Online Natural Dyeing Course – Natural Dyers and Growers Academy

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Jennifer Lienhard of Apple Oak Fibre Works will teach a year-long online course in natural dyeing – a guided, in-depth journey into the science, craft, and history of colour.

The program consists of the following-

  • 12 learning modules released monthly via a private course platform
  • Live Zoom calls, Q&A, and portfolio building
  • Live calls are scheduled twice a day to accommodate students in different time zones. Recordings available after every session
  • Optional in-person intensives and gardening session in August
  • Deep dives into fibres, tannins, mordanting, lasting colours, indigo fermentation vats and sustainability
  • Build a professional portfolio and creative direction for your own studio
  • Course certificate upon completion of the portfolio work

The course starts on the 13th of January 2026.

Monthly topics

  • January — Fibres and their differences
  • February — Mordanting
  • March — Tannins
  • April — Creating blues
  • May — Creating yellows
  • June — Creating reds
  • July — Creating purples
  • August — Secondary colours & modifiers
  • September — Lake making and related processes
  • October — Printing and advanced techniques
  • November — Industry standards & personal project
  • December — Final projects & presentations

Irish residents: receive 40% discount via the National Organic Training Skillnet (NOTS) funding (includes materials).

For more information, visit the NOTS’ website – https://nots.courseco.co/course-detail/1-year-professional-course-in-natural-dyeing-online/?id=76

For individuals living outside of Ireland, visit the Natural Dyers Academy‘s website – https://appleoakfibreworks.com/collections/1-year-professional-natural-dyeing-programme-build-your-portfolio/products/mastering-natural-colour-professional-natural-dyeing-course-2026

There is also a monthly payment plan option – https://appleoakfibreworks.com/collections/1-year-professional-natural-dyeing-programme-build-your-portfolio/products/1-year-professional-natural-dyeing-programme-2026-monthly-plan

Their Instagram: @appleoakfibreworks @naturaldyersacademy

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Education: Two-Day Woad Workshop – Apple Oak Fibre Works

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With Apple Oak Fibre Works, students will learn how to harvest dye plants from the field and process them in the dye studio. They also participate in dye plant trials and dye a small item to take home.

  • A talk by Tristan Lienhard
  • Harvesting Woad in the field
  • Making Woad balls for our fermentation Vats
  • Setting a woad pigment extraction, which takes a number of days to extract
  • Testing the blue content of over 20 different varieties of Woad, using the Japanese cold direct dyeing technique
  • Tour of the dye house
  • A talk by Jennifer Lienhard on fermentation vats, their differences and historical backgrounds.

When:

Friday 12th & Saturday 13th of July 2024 
Monday 15th & Tuesday 16th of July 2024

For more information, visit their website – https://appleoakfibreworks.com/collections/workshops/products/woad-hands-on-workshop-growing-and-dyeing-with-woad

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Education: Online Natural Dyeing Class – 2024 – Apple Oak Fibre Works

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Next year, Jennifer Lienhard of Apple Oak Fibre Works will teach a year-long online course in natural dyeing. She has a course-specific mailing list if you are interested.

The timeline is the following:

  • January – portfolio building, learning about fibres and fibre prep
  • February – mordants, and first module in ‘Growing your own dye’
  • March – tannins
  • April – blue dyes with 3 different indigo vats, and second module in ‘Growing your own Dye’
  • May – yellow dyes
  • June – red dyes, and third module in ‘Growing your own Dye’
  • July – purple dyes
  • August – combining primary colours to create secondary ranges
  • September – other techniques, such as lake making, resist paints and maya blue making
  • October – eco printing and fourth module of ‘Growing your own Dye’
  • November – project work

*The schedule might be subject to change. Supplies are included in the class.

For more information, visit her website –https://appleoakfibreworks.com/collections/workshops-teachings/products/a-one-year-course-in-natural-dyeing-2024