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Private Introduction to plant color in Forcalquier in Provence

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Private Introduction to plant color in Forcalquier in Provence

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27 Dec
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28 Dec
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29 Dec
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Dyeing
Duration: 3 hours

Next availability: Today, 27 Dec

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INR 5,142

1/2 day discovery

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Duration: 4 hours: Discovery of plant color through dye or indigo or ecoprint (plant imprint) or inks
Meals not included

Next availability: Today, 27 Dec

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Highlights

Discover in a unique Provençal setting how to create colors from dye plants picked on site, fix them on paper or fabric in an eco-responsible way (without toxic products, water used is collected from the roofs and recycled on the plants in the garden.
Create your unique colors and custom designs
Learn all the techniques of plant color while having fun, to be able to do them again at home.
Specific workshops are organized for families with children aged 6 and over.

Itinerary

  • XRGC+V6 Pierrerue

    Depending on the workshop chosen, you will make vegetable colors (inks), dye, learn to use a vat of indigo, make vegetable prints (ecoprint) from plants picked in the garden: -Create a pattern, make your color from plants then dye your cotton or silk linen square - Prepare a vat of vegetable indigo, to use it according to one of the methods you learned during the workshop; first by doing a few tests then by making your pattern on a silk or cotton scarf - Make a color chart of vegetable inks from plants picked in the garden from which the color has been extracted, then thickened as desired to make inks of different colors. - Create prints of plants picked up in the garden on fabric or paper: the plants are picked during a botanical walk where we learn to recognize tannin plants in particular which will give beautiful prints. Then they are placed on a silk scarf, which will be rolled up and put in the oven. You leave with your creations The workshop is located in a 17th century farm in the middle of lavender fields.

What's included

INCLUDED

Loan of aprons, gloves, pruners

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Lunch

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Mobile or paper ticket accepted
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Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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