Sunday 8th November

1pm - 5pm

at Innermost Gardens, Mt Victoria

The Artist:

Barbara Wheeler is an Australian artist working with natural fibres and fabrics, botanic prints and dyes in a practice that spans clothing design, stitching, basketry and fabric piecing. Barbara founded her clothing label, 'Every Thread Counts', in 2016 to raise awareness of the environmental and social impacts of global fast fashion and to promote the wearability of natural fibres.

The Workshop:

Botanical Prints and Dyes 4 hours

In this workshop you will learn

How to extract dyes from kitchen waste and apply them to textiles using shibori folding techniques Experiment with windfall eucalypt leaves to print textiles and paperWe will be using purple carrots, onion skins and turmeric, avocado and eucalypt

Tickets: $40 - Numbers are Limited

Please see our Facebook event for ticket details - 'Mt Vic Hub'

or email us at hello@mtvichub.org.nz