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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 05/12/2025

✨ Flax zines/posters! ✨ The last pieces I want to show you from the InterWOVEN exhibition are this series of zines/posters. Each of them represents relationships, knowledge, and invitations related to the history and resurgence of flax in Ireland.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 13/09/2025

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.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 13/09/2025

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! 🧵

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 09/09/2025

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

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 04/09/2025

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. 🔗 talu.earth/learn-natura... 🎶: Funky by AlexGuz

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 20/07/2025

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? festivalofcolour.co 🎟️

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 17/07/2025

🪉 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.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 17/07/2025

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 17/07/2025

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

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 17/07/2025

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

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 11/07/2025

🌾 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.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 11/07/2025

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.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 10/07/2025

🌼 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.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 10/07/2025

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.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 08/07/2025

🧱 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

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 08/07/2025

🪨 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.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 08/07/2025

🖤 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.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 08/07/2025

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 🎨

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 08/07/2025

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.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 08/07/2025

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.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 06/07/2025

🍂 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.

➡️ 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.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 06/07/2025

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.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 06/07/2025

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.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 05/07/2025

👖 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.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 05/07/2025

Justine will also be leading us on daily colourful Earth Rests (or meditations), which are a yoga nidra practice rooted in deep ecology. The perfect way to start two days of colourful explorations!

Archipelago Festival of Colour: daily Earth Rests (colourful meditations) with a background photo by Rafael de Almeida. The photo shows a group of revitalised women sitting in a circle and talking about their experience after an Earth Rest with Justine.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 05/07/2025

The film tells the story of how the first pair of UK-grown and processed jeans were birthed by Justine Aldersey-Williams alongside a wonderful community. The jeans are made of flax (including some from Mallon Linen, who also feature in the film!) and dyed with plant-based indigo.

Archipelago Festival of Colour: Irish premiere of “Woman Grows Jeans” film. Background photo by Raw Photography of a woman wearing the UK’s first pair of homegrown jeans. She is holdind dry Japanese indigo and flax plants.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 04/07/2025

And if you want to join us for the Sunday only, there are still plenty of one-day tickets left! Families are welcome and there will be all sorts of forest school activities to keep little ones entertained while the adults run off to be colour fairies for the day 🧚🏼‍♂️✨ You really won’t wanna miss it!

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 04/07/2025

There are only ✨7✨ tickets left to join us for the full weekend. Our facilitators can’t accommodate more participants in the workshops, and this ensures everyone learns and has personalised attention from the tutors.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 04/07/2025

So everything is coming together and it looks like it will be a fantastic weekend of #naturaldyes, colour explorations, deep ecology, frolicking in meadows and new friends! 🌿🌈✨

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 04/07/2025

The workshop and activity facilitators are gearing up to join us in the #Ulster countryside and our talented kitchen witch Karen is already hard at work speaking to suppliers and planning delicious weekend menus to cater to everyone’s dietary needs.

A group of colour enthusiasts around a fire pit in the evening. There is a variety of grasses and other plants growing in the meadow that surrounds them. Mature trees are visible in the distance.

A group of natural colour lovers listens in awe to two story tellers. They are out in a field, surrounded by trees and grassland.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 04/07/2025

Yesterday I visited @willowandlore.bsky.social, the lovely venue that will host the ✨Archipelago Festival of Colour✨ next 26-27 July. We sussed out the details of how we’ll set up the place for the weekend (and admired their new half acre of flax!). The excitement is building! 🎉 #spéirghorm

A very happy Mexican natural dyer walking on a diverse meadow of grasses and buttercups in Willow and Lore farm. There are converted horseboxes and a shed in the background.

A half acre of flax growing in Willow and Lore farm in Co. Antrim.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 25/06/2025

The 3rd step in #naturaldyeing is where the fun begins: dyeing! 🌈 Here are some tips about what plants are best. Learn learn the process of transforming plants and kitchen scraps into long-lasting textile colour with my online course ✨Finding Joy in Botanical Dyes✨ 👉🏽 talu.earth/learn-natura...

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 24/06/2025

The 2nd step in #naturaldyeing is “mordanting" or priming the textiles to create a water-insoluble bond that the colours from plants will attach to. Learn this and every foundational step of the natural dye process in my online course ✨Finding Joy in Botanical Dyes✨ 👉🏽 talu.earth/learn-natura...

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 23/06/2025

The 1st step in #naturaldyeing is “scouring” or washing the textiles to remove excess oils and waxes and allow the dye to penetrate inside the fibres. Learn this and every foundational step of the natural dye process in my online course ✨Finding Joy in Botanical Dyes✨ 👉🏽 talu.earth/learn-natura...

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 06/06/2025

Here’s what you can expect at this year’s ✨Archipelago Festival of Colour!✨ 👇🏽 All-weekend and Sunday-only tickets are now available at festivalofcolour.co See you there? 🎪🌈✨ ___________ #spéirghorm #spéirgorm #naturaldyes #naturalpigment #makeink

Poster of a countryside landscape with a stream leading down to a river. There are also tents, an indigo vat, a fire pit, a horsebox and a barn shed. It reads “Archipelago Festival of Colour Activities Announced!”

All-weekend ticket holders:
🔹 daily colourful earth rests (meditations)
🔹 colour safari
🔹 eco printing workshop with expert
🔹 natural dyeing workshop with expert
🔹 ink-making workshop with expert
🔹 pigment-making workshop with experts
🔹 experimentation with wild clay
🔹 discussion circle about mordanting textiles
🔹 deep ecology practice
🔹 daily fireside chats
🔹 3 daily meals (mostly organic, local, nutritious & delicious!)
🔹 plus all of Sunday’s activities! →

Sunday-only ticket holders:
🔸 community indigo vat
🔸 colour safari for families
🔸 forest school
🔸 cyanotype printing
🔸 colourful treasure hunt
🔸 explorations with homemade inks
🔸 film screening
🔸 face painting with natural colours
🔸 parade / fashion show
🔸 musical journalling session
🔸 lunch (mostly organic, local, nutritious & delicious!)
🔸 children are welcome on Sunday and those under 3 years old come free!

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 06/06/2025

If you’ve been curious about starting your natural dyeing journey, or if you’ve been dabbling here and there but are looking for a more structured approach, this is your chance! Discover the alchemy, science and connection that this creative practice brings 🌿🌈✨ talu.earth/learn-natura...

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 06/06/2025

Online course now open for registration! 📣 ✨ Finding Joy in Botanical Dyes✨ A beginner-friendly introduction to the captivating world of natural dyeing for textiles After a successful first run, this introductory online course returns this summer! 🌿🌈✨ talu.earth/learn-natura... ____ #naturaldyes

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 29/05/2025

Here’s how I used plants to dye 10 cotton flags for the ✨Nature’s Symphony: Celebrating Organic Growth✨ Feature Garden at #bordbiabloom 🌸 Celebrating @president.ie’s dedication to organic food, sustainability & his Galway roots ⛵️ _______ 🎶 Mornings by Jeff Kaale #spéirgorm #spéirghorm #naturaldyes

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 28/05/2025

The posters will also include indigo from last year’s community indigo vat and charcoal from Willow & Lore’s fire pit. Watch this space! 💙🖤 #naturaldyes #pigmentsky

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 28/05/2025

There will be a limited edition of screen printed posters for sale, and thanks to our first sponsorship by ocar.ie, they will include authentic Red Antrim Ochre (Ócar Dearg Aontroma), a very special pigment in this island 🧡 #spéirghorm #earthpigment #naturalpigment

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 28/05/2025

The poster is inspired by the magical Land at @willowandlore.bsky.social, which will hold us throughout the weekend & gift us some of its colour too! I’ll be announcing the programme very soon, but you can expect natural dyeing, pigment making, inks, cyanotypes, wild clay & deep ecology 🎪🌈✨

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 28/05/2025

This year’s ✨Archipelago Festival of Colour✨ poster is here! 🤩 Once again, illustrated by the incredible @pameqa.bsky.social, who is a brilliant animator, illustrator & painter. She painted last year’s ceremonial bell tent, which will once again make an appearance in this year’s fest! 🌸 #spéirgorm

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 24/05/2025

Sure, but if I wasn’t in my studio I wouldn’t have seen this sunset!

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 20/05/2025

We will also learn how to harvest, process and make watercolours from this mineral pigment for a truly soil-to-artwork creative practice!

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 20/05/2025

Over the two days of this year’s festival, Ione Maria Rojas, Annie Hogh and Tricia Kelly will guide us in making and firing wild clay pots to hold some of this precious pigment.

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Talú — natural dyes + regenerative textiles @talu.earth · 20/05/2025

Chalk is used extensively as a colour pigment and in other roles within the cannon of natural materials making. The island of Ireland only has chalk formations along the Antrim coast, including the Cushendall vicinity 🤍

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