Meadow flower dyeing

After spending multiple occasions wading through the wildflowers in London Fields in the pouring rain we finally put our harvest to good use this weekend. We held a pop-up dye workshop between the park and Broadway Market catching people reveling in the glorious sunshine that Saturday brought. We showed people an ancient Japanese technique for natural dyeing called shibori where you use folding, clamping, twisting and other creative means to create a pattern. (Tie-dying is a type of shibori). We created a dye vat using the flowers from the meadow, mostly coreopsis and zinnias. 

Naturally dyed bunting

The dye vat with coreopsis and zinnia meadown flowers

Some shibori creations from the day drying in the sunshine