Maggie Pearson

 Great meeting today with Maggie Pearson telling us about her journey into eco printing. Catch her workshop on Saturday 13th September.______________

Thank you for booking on my workshop, The Secrets of Summer Leaves and Flowers

 

- on Saturday September 13th 2025

- from 10.30am to 4.30pm

- with Alsager Creative Stitchers 

- at United Reformed Church Hall, Brookhouse Road, Alsager, Cheshire, ST7 2PA

 

I'm really looking forward to working with you. 

 

Please could you bring with you:

 

• An apron or old clothes which you don’t mind getting messy

• a good pair of shoes or trainers which will support your feet well. You will be standing for a lot of the day.

• A note book and pen for taking notes

• Smart phone or camera to take photos of your layout before you bundle, if you wish.

• A pair of scissors to cut leaf stems with

• A small hammer if possible [in case we have tie for hapazome]

• A pair of washing up gloves or surgical-type gloves to protect your hands, but flexible enough to enable you to work with leaves.

• Bags or bucket to take home damp samples and items.

 

It would be great if you could bring the following, but don’t worry if you can’t:

 

• Onion skins, just the dry external skins [red and/or yellow kept separately]

• Flowers [optional]

o Cosmos

o Coreopsis

o Marigolds

o Colourful daisies

• Any of the following leaves [you don’t need them all!]:

o rose 

o herbaceous/hardy geraniums/cranesbill

o paeony

o tree paeony 

o silver birch

o sumac 

o cherry

o walnut 

o maple

o sycamore

o cotinus [smoke bush] 

o Japanese acer [acer palmatum];

o horse chestnut;

o catalpa [Indian bean tree]

 

    

If you have any other favourite leaves you want to try to print, either pick them on the morning of the workshop, or the evening before [they will be ok overnight in an airtight container or bag in the fridge], and we can discuss and explore at the workshop whether they will print!  

 

 

Workshop materials

 

For the materials fee per person of £25, I will supply all necessary mordants, dyesand fabric fully prepared for each of you:

• cotton fabric for printing for samples

• cotton fabric for shibori with onion skin dye

• one piece of linen for a target piece, 

• all tannins and mordants

• carrier cloths, scoured

• resists for the bundles, to prevent shadow prints

If you have any questions, just email me.

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