Sanborn Mills

The Harmonious Palette: Beautiful Gradations with Natural Dyes Workshop Fee: $800.00 If you love color, join us for 5 days of intensive color exploration and discovery using natural dyes and materials from the Sanborn Mills dye garden. We will dye cellulose fabrics in large enough sample sizes for your stash and inspiration. Our workshop teaches you how to work with tannins and natural dyes to create unique and harmonious color gradations that are perfect for quilters, stitchers and sewists. We will dye cellulose fabrics in large enough sample sizes for your stash and inspiration. Tannins have become one of the secret ... Read more

Conjuring Color Blends With Kathy Hattori in New Hampshire! Description Sign up for this class is on the Sanborn Mills Farm website. $700, Aug 21, 2024 – August 25, 2024 (9am – 5pm) Conjuring Color Blends With Kathy Hattori at Sanborn Mills Farm in New Hampshire is a course on how to blend colors using natural dyes in unexpected combinations to create beautiful results. The palette will be developed on natural fabrics including hemp, cotton, silk and wool, with an emphasis on cellulose fibers. We will work with natural dyes in raw, concentrated extract and liquid form, different mineral salts and indigo. Pre- and ... Read more

Description Sign up for The Nerd’s Guide To Mordants on the Sanborn Mills Farm website. $700, Aug 14, 2024 – August 18, 2024 (9am – 5pm) This is the nerd’s guide to mordants – what they are, why they are important and how they are used in natural dyeing. Everyone wants to create long-lasting and beautiful plant color and the best way to do that is to mordant properly.  The class will experiment with the most popular plant-based tannins and alum accumulators, mineral salt mordants and other binders to see the effects on animal and plant fibers. Each mordant variable will be dyed so that we ... Read more