Upcoming workshops and courses

Create Colours From Plants: Tie-Dyeing With Botanical Colours (Hastings)
Aug
23

Create Colours From Plants: Tie-Dyeing With Botanical Colours (Hastings)

from £45.00

A fun day for adults and children

Saturday 23rd August • 2pm-5pm

Hastings, East Sussex: Garden Cottages, The Bourne (the lower end, TN34)

Susannah Hall is a renowned London-based teacher of natural dyes and other traditional crafts offering summer courses in Hastings.

Join me by the sea to experiment with dyeing silk scarves with madder (traditional red), weld (traditional yellow), turmeric (gold) and onion skins (soft brown). You’ll be able to use different tie-dye techniques and have fun combining dip-dyeing and over-dyeing to create a variety of effects. You’ll learn about mordanting and preparing the dye bath.

What people think of my London classes:

Testimonials

“Absolutely exalted, it was more than I hoped for, and all I wished for!”

“Really accessible – clear & open to questions”

Typical class size: 8 people

Afternoon tea will be provided

No experience necessary

You’ll need to bring an apron and rubber gloves

Tickets: £45 for 1 adult • £60 for 1 adult + 1 child • £75 for 1 adults + 2 children

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A creative day with natural dyes
Aug
31

A creative day with natural dyes

A creative day with natural dyes
£65.00

Sunday 31st August • 11am-4pm

Kentish Town City Farm, 1 Cressfield Close, NW5 4BN
(closest transport: Gospel Oak (overground), Kentish Town (Northern line and Thameslink)

As the summer draws to a close there are plenty of plants to use to create natural dyes. This day is a chance to learn and express your creativity dyeing silk and cotton with plants including some unexpected: turmeric, annatto, hawthorn, forsythia, oak bark, buddleja, madder and woad. You can experiment with different tie-dye techniques, with dip-dyeing and over-dyeing. No previous experience necessary.

You’ll take away a naturally dyed silk scarf and a pair of cotton napkins.

Tea/coffee, biscuits and cake will be provided.

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Introduction to felting – 4 evenings
Oct
2
to 23 Oct

Introduction to felting – 4 evenings

£150.00

Thursday evenings
6.30pm-9pm
October 9th, 16th, 23rd & 30th 2025

Kentish Town City Farm, NW5 4BB
(closest transport: Gospel Oak (overground), Kentish Town (Northern line and Thameslink)

Come along to learn all about felt. Felt has kept us warm for thousands of years. Sheep’s wool has the amazing property of being able to combine the hairs to form a tough fabric (it was used as a form of armour!) that can be used as vessels, for clothes and even tents. This course will explore how to make felt through the process of making a piece of flat felt, a bowl, a bag and applying appliqué.

Timetable:

Week 1: Learn about the principles of felting and make some flat felt.

Week 2: We’ll use a resist to make a patterned felt bowl.

Week 3: We’ll use a resist to make a bag.

Week 4: We’ll apply the flat felt as appliqué to the bag and make the handle.

This is a participatory, hands-on course where you’ll have a chance to learn by doing in a collaborative, fun atmosphere.

What you will need: a waterproof apron
What you will take away: a felt bowl and felt bag

No experience necessary.

Positive comments about my style of teaching:

“Very good – super relaxed and friendly while being full of info” – Maz

“Great hands-on learning” – Betty

“Relaxed, informative. Very knowledgeable” – Yvonne

“ Very knowledgeable, always willing to answer questions and very generous with time and materials.” – Sophie

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