Build a Systematic Sampler

Create, compare and reproduce a rich palette of natural colours.

Explore Wool in Different Forms

Work mainly with yarn, as well as felting wool and ready-made felt.

Discover What Makes Colour Sing

See how subtle shifts in mordants, dye combinations and technique transform the brilliance, depth and staying power of natural colour.

About the course

Natural colour can be beautiful—and frustratingly unpredictable. If your results are difficult to compare or reproduce, this course gives you a clear, practical system. Building on Natural Dyeing on Wool I, Michel Garcia creates an extensive colour sampler, working mainly with wool yarn, as well as felting wool and ready-made felt. You’ll see how mordants, dye combinations and subtle changes in technique affect brilliance, depth and colourfastness. Michel’s scientific curiosity and decades of hands-on experience reveal not only what works, but why. The result is a rich palette you can understand, record and return to in your own practice. Ready to explore natural colour shade by shade? Enrol in Natural Dyeing on Wool II: The Colour Sampler.

Meet Your Teacher: Michel Garcia

Michel Garcia is a natural dye expert, botanist and endlessly curious experimenter. His teaching brings together traditional knowledge, scientific insight and decades of practical experience—always with warmth, clarity and the occasional surprise. In this course, Michel turns the wool sampler into a tool for discovery. Rather than simply presenting finished colours, he reveals how each shade is built, why it behaves as it does, and how you can reproduce it in your own work.

Curriculum

11 Chapters · 30 Lessons

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      How to Use This Course

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      Course Handouts in Five Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, ES

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      Downloadable Colour Sampler

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      The Skein as a Dyeing Unit

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      Washing Wool Yarn Before Mordanting

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      Mordanting Wool Yarn and Delicate Fleece

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      Case Study: Preparing Felted Hats

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      Reviving the Indigo Vat

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      Using the Revived Indigo Vat: Felted Hat

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      Building Blue Shades on Natural Grey Wool

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      Preparing the Indigo Blues for the Sampler

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      Finishing the Indigo Range

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      Overdyeing after Indigo: Madder, Old Rose and Purple

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      Building Greens and Plums after Indigo

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      Direct Colors: Avocado and Cutch

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      Historical Color Formulas

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      Indigo and Mixed Colors: The Final Palette

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      Titanium Mordant

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      Titanium Results and Indigo Overdyeing

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      Dyeing Fine Merino Wool

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      Building Green and Red on Felt

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      Dandelion and Iron

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      Dandelion and Ferrous Lactate: the Extended Palette

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      The History of Indigocarmine

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      Saxony Blue Indigo Made Soluble

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      Building Greens with Saxony Blue

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      One-bath text

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      One-bath pdf

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      Mapping Colour from Les Gobelins to NCS

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      Results. The Sampler Principle

Learn with Michel and start building your own wool colour sampler.

Take the next step beyond Natural Dyeing on Wool I. Learn directly from Michel Garcia, deepen your understanding of natural colour, and create a practical wool sampler you can return to in your own work.

€90,00

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