Learn Natural Dyeing in Stroud / Cotswolds

Honest level: Beginner -> Advanced — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Schools in Stroud / Cotswolds

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• West Dean College (natural dye short courses)
  Natural Dyeing - Textiles (residential short course)
  West Dean College of Arts and Conservation in West Sussex runs residential natural-dye short courses in which students build over twenty dye baths from seasonal plants and master mordanting using historic dyes such as weld, madder, cochineal and indigo.
  https://www.westdean.org.uk/study/short-courses/courses/swe11150-natural-dyeing-textiles
• Botanical Inks (Bristol/Stroud)
  Introduction to Natural Dyes, Inks and Ecological Surface Techniques (2-day)
  Botanical Inks is Babs Behan's non-toxic natural-dye studio working with foraged and organically grown plant dyes, offering small-group (around five places) two-day workshops in natural dyeing, ink-making and ecological print techniques.
  https://www.botanicalinks.com/

The credential

Studio master certificate / completed natural-dye apprenticeship (e.g. aizome or cochineal lineage) · Certifying body: — (master-led apprenticeship; no single global body)

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Natural Dyeing

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.