Private Tour
Available languages
3 hours 30 minutes
Mobile ticket
Discover in a unique Provençal setting how to create colors from dye plants picked on site, fix them on paper or fabric in an eco-responsible way (without toxic products, water used is collected from the roofs and recycled on the plants in the garden.
Create your unique colors and custom designs
Learn all the techniques of plant color while having fun, to be able to do them again at home.
Specific workshops are organized for families with children aged 6 and over.
Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Depending on the workshop chosen, you will make vegetable colors (inks), dye, learn to use a vat of indigo, make vegetable prints (ecoprint) from plants picked in the garden: -Create a pattern, make your color from plants then dye your cotton or silk linen square - Prepare a vat of vegetable indigo, to use it according to one of the methods you learned during the workshop; first by doing a few tests then by making your pattern on a silk or cotton scarf - Make a color chart of vegetable inks from plants picked in the garden from which the color has been extracted, then thickened as desired to make inks of different colors. - Create prints of plants picked up in the garden on fabric or paper: the plants are picked during a botanical walk where we learn to recognize tannin plants in particular which will give beautiful prints. Then they are placed on a silk scarf, which will be rolled up and put in the oven. You leave with your creations The workshop is located in a 17th century farm in the middle of lavender fields.
Loan of aprons, gloves, pruners
Lunch
Dyeing
Duration: 3 hours
Duration: 4 hours: Discovery of plant color through dye or indigo or ecoprint (plant imprint) or inks
Meals not included
1 review
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Ellen W,May 21, 2024
- Review from Viator
Isabella was very welcoming. Her studio, house and land are beautiful. She is a patient teacher and she shared so much knowledge. Appropriate for any skill level. Well worth the price! She has a guest house too if you want to stay there.
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