Natural Dyeing at Home: A Beginner’s Guide with Ceilidh Chaplin of Billynou
Ceilidh Chaplin, Natural Dyer and Slow Fashion Designer
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Learn everything you need to start your Natural Dye journey
1:27
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Introduction to Natural Dyeing: Choosing your equipment, fibers and dyes
13:05
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Scouring: Preparing your fabric for dye
17:49
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Mordanting: Ensuring long lasting vibrant colours
26:25
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Creating a Dye Bath: Extracting color from nature
19:52
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Bundle Dyeing: A playful technique using flowers and plants
27:50
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Results & After Care: Caring for your naturally dyed textiles
9:59
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Join Ceilidh Chaplin—founder of the beloved natural dye brand Billynou—as she guides you through the beautiful, meditative world of natural textile dyeing. Known for her thoughtful presence on YouTube and Instagram, Ceilidh brings her passion for sustainability, slowness, and low-impact living into this inspiring workshop designed especially for beginners.
In this 6-part class, you’ll learn everything you need to start dyeing your own fabrics at home using plants and natural materials. Together, we’ll cover:
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Introduction to Natural Dyeing
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Scouring: Preparing your fabric for dye
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Mordanting: Ensuring color stays vibrant
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Creating a Dye Bath: Extracting color from nature
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Bundle Dyeing: A playful technique using flowers and plants
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Results & Aftercare: Caring for your naturally dyed textiles
Whether you're a maker, textile lover, or simply curious about slow, sustainable living, this course will empower you to explore color, texture, and creativity—right from your kitchen.
Bring your curiosity and an open mind and enjoy your first natural dye project.
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I am passionate about clothing that is low impact and easy to wear and believe that slowness is a great recipe for anything life. Garments are a great anchor for stories and memories, in which our clothes can be woven into and is essential in encouraging a little more thoughtful consumerism. I use various materials and processes including vintage french linen and cotton, organic, low impact fibers and natural dyes and everything is proudly sewn and designed by me here in the south of France. I especially love the natural dyeing process, often described as "living colours". They have a charm and personality very unlike chemical dyes with the much higher energetic vibration of life. And recycling a beautiful piece of vintage fabric brings me a big old sense of peace and satisfaction.
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Class Project: Create Your First Naturally Dyed Textile
For your class project, you’ll create your own naturally dyed fabric using the techniques covered in the course. This can be a tea towel, napkin, T-shirt, or any piece of natural fiber you have at home.
Follow the steps we’ve learned—from scouring and mordanting to dyeing and aftercare—using plants or food scraps you can source locally or from your kitchen. You can try a solid dye bath or experiment with bundle dyeing for a more spontaneous result.
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