FIELD TRIP: Flower Dyeing with Local Roots Farm

We are leaving the city to surround ourselves in flower fields and play with color! Join us for a field trip to Local Roots Farm in Duvall where Renée Beaudoin will show you how to create natural dyes with farmed, foraged, native, and dried flowers. You will learn tips and tricks for which fibers absorb natural dyes best (cotton, wool, silk), how to scour and prepare your fibers for the dye bath, how to work with mordants (minerals, plants, and proteins) to modify the range of color, and timing and ratios for your flower party dye bath. Students will pick from the garden as well as forage wildflowers and grasses!

Each student will make fiber swatches of each color and take home a set of dyed cloth napkins. Optional picnicking under a tree and frolicking in the fields included!

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