MANITOBA GROWN NATURAL DYES
The Tinta Experience
A Journey into Botanical Dyes & Creative Expression.
Awaken your creative self through a hands-on, sensory-rich experience where nature and artistry intertwine.
The Tinta Experience is a half-day creative retreat that invites you to explore two fascinating natural dyeing techniques—Eco-Printing and Indigo Dyeing—using most of the botanicals grown at the farm.
With Lourdes as your guide, you’ll experiment with eco-printing, transferring the vibrant hues of flowers and leaves onto fabric through flower pounding (Tatakizome) and bundle dyeing. Then, you’ll dive into indigo’s deep, mysterious blues, learning to create an organic indigo vat and explore surface design techniques using resist templates and shapes, melted beeswax, and clay paste.
Each step of this experience is an embrace to the art of slowing down, (re)connecting with nature, ourselves, and each other, and creating wearable art as a tangible memory of our time together.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
🪻 Eco-Printing – Hands-on lesson in flower pounding & bundle dyeing. Whether you're drawn to the rhythmic release of hammering fresh blooms onto fabric or the delicate process of steaming floral imprints onto silk, this experience offers a hands-on journey into natural dyeing. *Please see note below.
💙 Indigo Dyeing – Learn to build an organic indigo vat & explore resist techniques. Dyeing with Indigo is the perfect example of plant magic. Since the indigo pigment is not soluble in water, dyeing textiles with it requires an understanding of its chemistry. But don’t you worry, this class only requires your curiosity on how to work with plant-based indigo powder - everything else can be taught! In the summer, interact with Persicaria tinctoria in Lourdes’ garden and learn how to tend to Manitoba-grown indigo.
🌿 Farm & Studio Time – A 5-hour mini retreat with guided, hands-on creative exploration
🎨 All Materials Provided – Including scoured and pre-mordanted fabrics & a take-home collection of your beautifully dyed textiles
🥂 Snacks & Refreshments - throughout our time together! Catered food from a local business.
🌀 Take home one (1) beautifully dyed silk scarf and cotton swatches dyed with flowers, one (1) 43x90-in cotton shawl and 3 different sample sizes of cotton fabric dyed with indigo. Infused with your creative energy and plant colours
Cost: $297 plus applicable taxes
📍Location: Southeast Manitoba, 70 km from Central Winnipeg, about 10km south of Richer, MB. The exact location will be shared after booking a class.
The Tinta Experience is more than just a workshop, it is a catalyst for an inspired life—a reminder that creativity is not a talent but the ability to play and is always within reach, waiting to be awakened.
*The eco-printing portion is slightly different depending on which month you are booking:
🌸Late July – September: We’ll do flower pounding (Tatakizome) & bundle dyeing, and there is a garden tour + flower u-pick
🍂October – June: We’ll do bundle dyeing with dried flowers & other natural dyestuff, and there is no garden tour or flower u-pick (seasonal limitation)
✨ Join us and create with the colours of the earth. ✨Private group booking and one-on-one in-depth sessions are available, email Lourdes at hello@masaganaflowerfarm.com
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