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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles
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🌈 Helping you reconnect to colour and the Land through workshops & events.
✨Finding Joy in Botanical Dyes✨ online course starts 22/Sept! 👉🏽 https://talu.earth/learn-natural-dyeing-online

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📍 West Wicklow, Ireland
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So, can you match the plants in the image to colour they produce?

You can either take a screenshot and draw the lines matching the colour with its source or simply write down a list of the numbers and letters you think go together. The first correct guess will win a surprise! 🎁
1. Caramel brown wool 2. Light dusty pink wool 3. Golden yellow wool 4. Peachy pink wool A) Tree with lobed leaves and bright red berries B) Small brown cones hanging off the twigs of a tree C) A tall coniferous tree with reddish bark D) Two fuits growing side by side in a cluster, enveloped by a yellowish leafy husk grow in a tree with big rounded leaves that are softly hairy and have serrated edges.
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Let’s play a little game! 🎉

As you know, I’m doing a FREE call this Monday 15 September at 6:30pm Irish time to give you my best tips to identify dye plants in the wild and help you guess the shades they could make.

In advance of this, I thought it would be fun to do a little guessing game! 🧵
Guess which plant makes what colour?
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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So, can you match the plants in the image to colour they produce?

You can either take a screenshot and draw the lines matching the colour with its source or simply write down a list of the numbers and letters you think go together. The first correct guess will win a surprise! 🎁
1. Caramel brown wool 2. Light dusty pink wool 3. Golden yellow wool 4. Peachy pink wool A) Tree with lobed leaves and bright red berries B) Small brown cones hanging off the twigs of a tree C) A tall coniferous tree with reddish bark D) Two fuits growing side by side in a cluster, enveloped by a yellowish leafy husk grow in a tree with big rounded leaves that are softly hairy and have serrated edges.
September 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Let’s play a little game! 🎉

As you know, I’m doing a FREE call this Monday 15 September at 6:30pm Irish time to give you my best tips to identify dye plants in the wild and help you guess the shades they could make.

In advance of this, I thought it would be fun to do a little guessing game! 🧵
Guess which plant makes what colour?
September 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Ever wonder…

🤨 Is that dye plant?
🎨 What colour does it make?
🌺 Will this brightly-coloured flower dye my shirt that colour?
🍃 Why is it so hard to get green?

I’ll be answering that+ more next Monday 15 Sept @ 6:30pm (Irish time) on Zoom!

It’s FREE, just register guides.talu.earth/what-colour
September 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Let’s look at some of the colours that are possible on textiles using #plantdyes! 🍃🌈✨

Start your #naturaldyeing journey with my online course ✨Finding Joy in Botanical Dyes✨, which starts 22 September.

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🎶: Funky by AlexGuz
September 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Just one week until we meet in @willowandlore.bsky.social to celebrate colour from nature with workshops, discussions, meditations, games & stories by the fire! 🎪🌈✨

Here’s a lil’ recap of last year’s festival, with videos by Rafa de Almeida.

Have you got your tickets?
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July 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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🪉 About Ashleigh:

Ashleigh Ellis is an award-winning eco artist based in Cork. She works with many mediums across the arts and health space, and participatory arts, and she teaches an online course on Cyanotypes.

🎟️ All-weekend and Sunday-only festival tickets available at festivalofcolour.co
“With Ashleigh Ellis” Overlaid on top of a portrait of Ashleigh Ellis. Ashleigh Ellis Ashleigh Ellis is an award-winning eco artist based in Cork, Ireland. She works with many mediums across the arts and health space, and participatory arts, and she teaches an online course on Cyanotype and Natural Dyes. Her practice explores life-affirming reflection and creative processes to deepen the relationship between people and the more-than-human world. Plants, natural pigments, textiles, painting and music are her joy, and she brings a deep knowledge of environmentally conscious art and well-being practices. She works at Helium Arts with young people with life-long health conditions, and teaches on the Eco Art module, Masters in Arts & Engagement, at Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland.
July 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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🪉 About Ashleigh:

Ashleigh Ellis is an award-winning eco artist based in Cork. She works with many mediums across the arts and health space, and participatory arts, and she teaches an online course on Cyanotypes.

🎟️ All-weekend and Sunday-only festival tickets available at festivalofcolour.co
“With Ashleigh Ellis” Overlaid on top of a portrait of Ashleigh Ellis. Ashleigh Ellis Ashleigh Ellis is an award-winning eco artist based in Cork, Ireland. She works with many mediums across the arts and health space, and participatory arts, and she teaches an online course on Cyanotype and Natural Dyes. Her practice explores life-affirming reflection and creative processes to deepen the relationship between people and the more-than-human world. Plants, natural pigments, textiles, painting and music are her joy, and she brings a deep knowledge of environmentally conscious art and well-being practices. She works at Helium Arts with young people with life-long health conditions, and teaches on the Eco Art module, Masters in Arts & Engagement, at Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland.
July 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Ashleigh will also lead our closing circle on Sunday with a gentle musical journalling session.
“Archipelago Festival of Colour Musical journalling closing circle Sunday 27 July” Overlaid on top of a photo of a woman in a teal dress playing the harp. Photo by Chi Nguyen Phung on Unsplash
July 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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On Sunday, people of all ages will be invited to experiment with cyanotype printing, as Ashleigh Ellis will be offering drop-in sessions. You’ll also be able to use natural dyes to create unexpected results on your prints! This fun activity will be open to all, regardless of ticket type.
“Archipelago Festival of Colour Drop-in cyanotype printing with natural dyes Sunday 27 July” Overlaid on top of an image of a wet cyanotype print of a leaf with drops all around
July 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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🌾 About Ruth:

Ruth Osborne’s creative practice has developed through her background in Art History, printmaking, interest in folklore and textiles heritage in Ireland, in particular the story of Linen.

🎟️ All-weekend and Sunday-only festival tickets available at festivalofcolour.co
“With Ruth Osborne” Overlaid on top of a portrait of Ruth Osborne arranging some printed pieces on a wall. Ruth Osborne Ruth Osborne is an artist based in County Down. Her creative practice has developed through her background in Art History, printmaking, interest in folklore and textiles heritage in Ireland, in particular the story of Linen. Ruth works primarily on locally sourced Irish Linen and creates unique works combining a range of printmaking techniques and hand-embellished painterly elements using natural dyes, plant inks, and earth pigments, which she gathers sustainably and processes by hand. Ruth has exhibited and sold her work since 2019 and has work represented in public and private collections, including Antrim Area Hospital and National Museums Northern Ireland. ➡️ Ruth Osborne ➡️ She has received awards and grants from the Arts Council NI for the creation of new bodies of work and took part in a British Council Cultural Exchange Residency between Finland and Northern Ireland during 2023. Ruth is also a facilitator and tutor and regularly delivers a range of creative workshops for arts and heritage organisations. Ruth is  an Artist in Residence for the Arts and Health Charity, Arts Care and an Artist Fellow on The Mac Belfast's New Visions project, funded by the Free Lands Foundation. 
July 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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On Saturday, artist Ruth Osborne will be teaming up with Alison Nea (Modh) to lead us on a Colour Safari around @willowandlore.bsky.social During the safari, we’ll discover dyestuffs in the hedges to utilise in her ink making and natural dyeing workshop afterwards!
“Archipelago Festival of Colour Colour safari & native tree inks & dyes workshop Saturday 26 July” Overlaid over a photo of a few naturally dyed samples hanging on a wall and ink tests of various colours on small pieces of paper.
July 11, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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🌼 About Katerina:

Katerina Gribkoff is an artist and researcher based in the West of Ireland. She is currently finishing a Ph.D. in practice-based artistic research at the Burren College of Art / University of Galway.

🎟️ All-weekend and Sunday-only festival tickets available at festivalofcolour.co
“with Katerina Gribkoff” Overlaid in top of a black and white portrait of Katerina Gribkoff wearing a flower crown. Katerina Gribkoff Katerina Gribkoff is an artist and researcher based in the West of Ireland. She is currently finishing a Ph.D. in practice-based artistic research at the Burren College of Art / University of Galway. Her research uses permaculture, systems theory, and ecological thinking as a framework to cultivate an artistic practice as a living system. She has been growing dye plants in the Burren for four years. Her methodology includes quilting, sculpture, film photography, gardening, and material play. Katerina regularly disseminates her research and interests through workshops, collaborative projects, and writing.
July 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Artist Katerina Gribkoff will treat all-weekend ticket holders to a morning of deep ecology, with a beautiful mindful session 🌱talk and make: charming the garden🌱
“Archipelago Festival of Colour talk and make: charming the garden Sunday 27 July” Overlaid on top of a photo of weld plants (Reseda luteola) by Katerina Gribkoff. “take home a dye plant charm it first plant the plant and care, to maintain it think with it, make with it go to seed” Overlaid on top of a photo of madder plants (Rubia tinctorum) by Katerina Gribkoff.
July 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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🧱 About Tricia:

Tricia is the founder behind Ócar.ie, based on the beautiful North Coast of Ireland. She processes Antrim red ochre from the interbasaltic formation into artists' grade pigment.

🎟️ All-weekend and Sunday-only festival tickets available at festivalofcolour.co
A portrait of Tricia Kelly smiling, with the words “and Tricia Kelly (Ócar)” Tricia Kelly (Ócar) Tricia is the founder behind Ócar.ie, based on the beautiful North Coast of Ireland. She processes Antrim red ochre from the interbasaltic formation into artists' grade pigment. Working by hand using traditional methods, Tricia carries on a pigment-making custom that dates back many thousands of years on this island. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin History of Art, Tricia founded Ócar in 2023, after a long career in Adult Learning support. The Ócar oil and watercolour paint range, made by Wallace Seymour Ltd, is available in independent art supply stores from New York to Dnipro. For more information and to contact Tricia, go to www.ocar.ie
July 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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🪨 About Ione:

Ione is an artist and facilitator working with earth, plants, people and stories.

🎟️ All-weekend and Sunday-only festival tickets available at festivalofcolour.co
A photo of Ione Maria Rojas smiling as she looks at a wall of red ochre with the text “and Ione Maria Rojas” Ione Maria Rojas Ione is an artist and facilitator working with earth, plants, people and stories. She is interested in what colours and materials we can make from our immediate environment and in making non-extractive craft methods accessible to all. She uses drawing, writing and making as tools for dialogue with our inner, quieter selves and with the land and ecologies around us. Ione lives and works in South Devon, where she's teaching colourmaking and other land-based art techniques to KS2 primary school children and their teachers, with the hope of bringing more sustainable arts methods into the curriculum.
July 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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🖤 About Annie:

Annie Hogg is an emerging artist, based in her home studio in a village her family have called home for four generations in Co. Tipperary.

🎟️ All-weekend and Sunday-only festival tickets available at festivalofcolour.co
A black and white portrait of Annie Hogg and her dog Archy with the words “with Annie Hogg (The Wild Hedge Ink Co.) written on top. Annie Hogg is an emerging artist, based in her home studio in a village her family have called home for four generations in Co. Tipperary. With a studio based practice using sculpture, installation, community engagement, performance and sound. Her work researches power relations and resources. Aiming to see both human and other than human responses and outcomes in human led situations. She works with natural materials in traditional and innovative ways, and contributes regularly to teaching programmes, sharing the craft of pigment making in a variety of settings. Annie Hogg graduated with a BA in sculpture from Aki College of Art, The Netherlands 2002. She subsequently spent several years living and working on direct action environmental protest camps.
July 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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On Sunday evening, once the vessels are fired, we’ll learn to grind up charcoal and earth pigments to turn them into watercolours! The watercolours will be poured into the wild clay vessels for you to take home with you 🎨
July 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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On Saturday evening, Annie Hogg, Ione Maria Rojas and Tricia Kelly will lead us around the fire pit as we learn to make wild clay vessels to be fired on-site.
July 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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We’re in for a treat, as 3 pigment powerhouses from Ireland and the UK will come together to offer a two-part workshop on pigments, charring and wild clay.
July 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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🍂 About Alison:

Alison Nea is an award-winning designer from Dunlaoghaire, Co. Dublin. With a background in costume and a love of textiles, she began experimenting with natural dyes in 2020.

🎟️ All-weekend and Sunday-only festival tickets available at festivalofcolour.co
“With Alison Nea (Modh)” The background is a portrait of Alison Nea in her garden, wearing an eco printed yellow jacket. The portrait is by Eleanor Rogers. Alison Nea (Modh) Alison Nea is an award-winning designer from Dunlaoghaire, Co. Dublin. With a background in costume and a love of textiles, she began experimenting with natural dyes in 2020. A year later, Alison went on to establish Modh, a brand that has become synonymous with slow, sustainable design. The name Modh, meaning “method” in Irish, reflects her deliberate and conscious approach to textiles. Alison is continuously inspired by the natural world and Ireland’s craft heritage and works primarily with Irish linen to create a range of naturally dyed products in clothing, accessories and homeware. ➡️ ➡️ She now specialises in eco printing, a practice that captures the natural textures, shapes, and pigments of each plant, creating designs that are as unique as the leaves and flowers that made them. With a growing interest in diversifying her eco print range, Alison also began cultivating dye plants in her studio garden 2 years ago. In addition to her work with Modh, Alison is committed to education and community engagement. She regularly hosts workshops to share her expertise in natural dyeing and sustainable practices, fostering an ever-growing community of eco-conscious makers.
July 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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On Sunday, Alison will be offering drop-in ink play sessions for people of all ages to discover the colours found within the plants around us.
Archipelago Festival of Colour: ink play for all ages! Sunday 27 July. The background is an image of various tests of botanical inks on paper.
July 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Alison Neah from Modh will be joining us for the first time! 🎉 On Saturday she’ll team up with Ruth Osborne and they’ll lead us on a Colour Safari around @willowandlore.bsky.social. During the safari, we’ll discover dyestuffs in the hedges to utilise in her eco printing workshop afterwards.
Archipelago Festival of Colour: colour safari & eco printing with native trees workshop. Saturday 26 July. The background is an eco printed dress hanging among vegetation. The dress is printed with blackberry leaves and flowers.
July 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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👖 About Justine (The Wild Dyery)

Justine Aldersey-Williams is an animist colour lover, sharing matrilineal textile crafts as deep ecology.

🎟️ All-weekend and Sunday-only festival tickets available at festivalofcolour.co
“With Justine Aldersey-Williams (The Wild Dyery)” Photo by Paul Cooper of a smiling woman sitting down and wearing the UK’s first pair of homegrown jeans. She is holding a bunch of dry Japanese indigo plants. A stook of dry flax stands behind her. Justine Aldersey-Williams is an animist colour lover, sharing matrilineal textile crafts as deep ecology. As a yoga teacher since 2006, Justine’s textile work intersects creativity, spirituality and environmentalism. She devises creative rituals that reconnect people with nature and sees botanical dyeing as a gateway craft that can inspire people to feel more reverence for nature. In March 2020 she founded the North England Fibreshed and in 2023 she made history by birthing the first pair of fully UK-grown jeans. Along with Mark Palmer, she’s the co-founder of Homegrown Colour, a company producing British indigo from organic woad.
July 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM