Botanical Bundle Dyeing with Flowers, Food and Garden Remnants

Discover the magic of botanical bundle dyeing using flowers, leaves, and food waste to create stunning natural patterns on textiles. This hands-on, sustainable workshop includes a mindful garden walk, expert dyeing tips, and a take-home piece of your own dyed creation. Facilitated by artist Renata Minoldo.

What to Expect

This workshop begins with a mindful garden walk where you'll gather flowers, leaves, and other natural treasures. Renata will guide you through the bundle dyeing process, showing you how to use plant pigments and food scraps to dye textiles in creative ways. Enjoy a relaxed atmosphere with expert tips and fun surprises!

What You’ll Learn

• The basics of botanical bundle dyeing

• How to use flowers, leaves, and food remnants to color textiles

• Simple techniques for creating beautiful, unexpected patterns

• Tips for preparing fabrics and selecting the best fibers for natural dyeing

What’s Included

• All materials, including fabric to dye

• A mindful garden walk

Who Can Take Part?

This workshop is open to all skill levels, whether you're new to dyeing or a seasoned crafter looking to try something sustainable and creative! This workshop will have a maximum of 20 participants.

About the Host

Renata Minoldo is an artist and facilitator specialising in botanical dyeing and slow crafts. Since 2019, she’s been helping individuals and communities connect through textiles and nature. Passionate about mental health, wellbeing, and sustainability, Renata creates safe, supportive spaces for learning and creative exploration

About OmVed Gardens:

OmVed Gardens is a garden, exhibition, events, and learning space in North London dedicated to exploring the connections between food, ecology and creativity for health and climate resilience. We are on a mission to inspire ecological awareness and action, and deepen our understanding of interconnectedness with the natural world.

As a registered Community Interest Company, all our activities prioritise social and ecological objectives. Whether collaborating with chefs, creatives, gardeners, or schools, OmVed Gardens is a hub for education, connection, and action. We aim to inspire individuals and communities to reimagine their role in building a healthier, more resilient world.

We work to increase biodiversity - of species, seeds, food systems, and participation, through regenerative gardening, seed saving, habitat creation, and ecological education. Our space serves as a living example of how urban areas can be transformed into thriving ecosystems that support both human and non-human communities.

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Subsidised Tickets

We encourage young people to take part in the group. Participants aged 16-25 can receive a 50% discount on the sessions. To apply, please email events@omvedgardens.com with the event name and a copy of your ID. Discounts are subject to availability.

Refund Policy:

Tickets are non-refundable, except in cases where a waiting list exists for the session. If the event is sold out, a refund may be considered if requested up to 10 days prior to the session date. Please write to us for any refund inquiries.