Natural Dyes & Herbal Sachet Wildcrafting Workshop with Northwest Natura

Please join naturalist and botanist, Jazmen Yoder for a day of foraging and wildcrafting in this indoor/outdoor workshop.

This course will focus on teaching you how to dye wool with nature’s offerings. Pre-treated wool sheets* will be provided to all participants to use in the dyeing portion of this workshop.

We’ll spend some time outside during the first portion of this course looking for plants, mushrooms, and lichen that can be used to make natural dyes. We will forage one or two species while we’re out and take the materials back to the venue to process and begin the second portion of the workshop.

Back at the Chuckanut Center around 3:30pm, we’ll use the kitchen to craft several natural dyes together. Each person will be provided with two sheets of white, pretreated wool fabric.

Each participant has the opportunity to experiment however they want with the various dye pots we craft. In previous classes, students walked away with 6-8 dyed cuts ranging in color (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and brown were attained).

In the final portion of this class, you will make a sachet of aromatic herbs using pieces of your dyed fabric.

*Please register via the event website.