Sustainable Plant-Based Dyeing Masterclass



3.5 hours

Class size 1 to 20 (public classes), 12 to 40
  $130

Join us and the incredible designer and natural dye alchemist Tamara Leacock of REMUSE Design for a richly immersive afternoon exploring the craft and consciousness of sustainable plant-based dyeing.

This 3.5-hour masterclass blends tactile technique with creative intuition - a truly hands-on masterclass in colour, resistance, and transformation. You will be guided through traditional and experimental dye methods using botanicals and mineral mordants. Learn how to prepare fabrics, bind and resist with shibori, and coax deep, shifting tones from ingredients like logwood and indigo.

Designed for adult learners, fans of sustainability and curious makers, this session invites you to slow down, tune in, and get your hands into the process. Whether you are just starting out or looking to deepen your practise, this class offers practical skills and poetic tools for sustainable making.

- Each participant will work with a custom undyed REMUSE scarf and may also bring any natural fibre garment of their own to dye, as well as a great deal of materials to continue your dyeing journey at home.

Tamara will also share selected garments from her latest REMUSE collection. These pieces act as living swatches and storytelling tools, with the option to browse or purchase any that sing out to you on the day with exclusive discounts for workshop participants.

 

Please note: This class requires at least 5 students to run. In the unlikely event that we don't get this number of students, we'll cancel the class and fully refund you and inform you via email, so please watch your email a few days prior to the class.

What you'll get

- 3.5 hours of expert guidance from Tamara

- One REMUSE undyed scarf to dye and take home and a dyed garment of your own

- All dyes, materials, tools, and protective gear

- An intimate group experience in a warm, collaborative studio space

- Exhibition of REMUSE garments available for viewing and purchase

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What to bring

• A natural fibre garment of your own (cotton, linen, hemp, ramie, bamboo, tencel or modal). Yourself, and a healthy dose of curiosity!

Suitable for

This class is perfect for beginners - no prior experience is needed.

This class is great for individuals and couples as well as for a date idea, birthday or hens party.

This experience would also be a fun gift for her, gift for mum or gift for couples.

Location

Work-Shop Melbourne - 136A Cromwell St, Collingwood, VIC

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Your teacher

Tamara Leacock

Tamara Leacock


Tamara Leacock is a fashion designer, natural dyer, and educator based in Naarm (Melbourne). Through her label REMUSE, she creates slow, sculptural garments that blend sustainability, ancestral dye traditions, and future-facing design. Her work explores the intersection of fashion, ritual, and resistance, with a focus on natural fibres, plant dyes, and circular processes. Tamara regularly teaches workshops across Australia and has exhibited her work internationally.

Check out more of Tamara’s designs at www.remuse.world and you can read a wonderful Q&A about her sustainable practices here.




Your host

Work-Shop
Work-Shop

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Work-Shop is a creative concept that will broaden your horizons and help you unleash your inner awesome. We provide affordable short courses in life skills and alternative art. We’ve teamed up with Australia’s brightest creative minds to share their knowledge and help teach you a new skill. From 3D printing and stencil art through to music and gardening – life skills and personal development through to cooking doughnuts and mushroom foraging, we offer a broad range of fun and creative short courses to suit our time poor lives. We will inspire you to pick up that pen, paintbrush, hammer or sewing machine and flick the switch that will kickstart a whole new way of life.
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