🌿 INDIGO WEEK 2026

Missed Indigo Week live? You can still join us.

All Indigo Week recordings are now available inside the Natural Dyers & Growers Academy, allowing you to work through the programme at your own pace while still benefiting from community support, live discussions and ongoing indigo-focused events.

Across Indigo Week, we explored indigo from many different perspectives — history, culture, cultivation, fermentation, vat making and practical dyeing.

Bringing together historians, researchers, artists and practitioners from around the world, Indigo Week offers a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of indigo as both a colour and a living process.

In addition to the recordings, members are invited to join our continuing indigo activities, including live dyeing sessions, vat troubleshooting, the Sukumo Make-Along and future Academy events.

🌿 INCLUDED IN YOUR MEMBERSHIP

✔ Full access to all Indigo Week recordings

✔ Access to the Full Membership Resource Library

✔ Live Indigo Dyeing Session 

✔ Indigo Vat Troubleshooting Session

✔ Ongoing vat support inside the Academy

✔ Access to the Sukumo Make-Along

✔ Full Academy Membership for one year

✔ Garden Series & recordings

✔ DYEWORKS Conversations & recordings

✔ Future live Academy events

🌿 INDIGO WEEK RECORDINGS

Dominique Cardon

Since the Dawn of Time: Purple and Indigo Across Cultures

A fascinating exploration of indigo and purple dyes through history, archaeology and global trade traditions.

Rosa Chang

Indigo Shade Map: Stories of Indigo, Culture and Community

Exploring indigo through storytelling, cultural connection and contemporary practice.

Britt Boles

Sukumo Making: Process, Practice and Material Transformation

An in-depth introduction to the traditional Japanese process of producing sukumo.

Britt Boles

The Sukumo Fermentation Vat: Structure, Management and Practice

Understanding, building and maintaining the living sukumo vat.

Jennifer Lienhard

Live Indigo Vat Making

Step-by-step demonstrations of:

• Fermentation Vat
• Organic Fruit Sugar Vat
• Mineral (Iron) Vat

Tristan Lienhard

Indigo Research & Plant Trials

Insights into indigo cultivation, processing and variety trials.

🌿 CONTINUING THE JOURNEY

Indigo Week was designed as the beginning of a longer exploration rather than a standalone event.

Members can continue their learning through:

• Ongoing vat support and troubleshooting
• The Academy community
• The Sukumo Make-Along
• Future indigo-focused sessions
  

🌿 LEARN MORE

Before joining, you may enjoy reading some of our Indigo Week articles:

• From Sukumo to Living Vat: Completing the Indigo Journey with Britt Boles
• The Organic Fruit Sugar Vat: A Different Path to Blue
• Indigo Week presenter articles and session summaries

Happening Around Apple Oak Fibre Works – Tagged "Indigo Week" – AppleOak FibreWorks

🌿 FULL MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED

Indigo Week is available through the Natural Dyers & Growers Academy.

Annual Membership: €65

Your membership includes Indigo Week recordings, Academy events, resource libraries, discussions and ongoing learning throughout the year.

Seed to Dye to Seed

Seasonal Dye Garden Series 2026

All Nine Sessions Available as Recordings | Included with Full Academy Membership

Tutor: Tristan Lienhard
Original Programme: February – September 2026
Format: Online recordings and supporting resources
Access: Through the Natural Dyers & Growers Academy Full Membership

Grow your own dye garden from seed to harvest... and back to seed again.

There is something deeply rewarding about growing your own colour. From that first tiny seed to harvesting leaves and flowers, collecting seed and preparing for another growing season, every stage offers something new to discover.

Seed to Dye to Seed follows the complete life cycle of dye plants through the gardening year, bringing together practical growing knowledge, seasonal observations and a deeper understanding of the plants we use for natural dyeing.

Led by Tristan Lienhard, the 2026 series was recorded across nine seasonal sessions between February and September.

The 2026 live programme has now concluded, and all nine session recordings are available to watch through Full Academy Membership. Learn at your own pace, revisit individual topics whenever you need them, and follow the programme alongside your own gardening season.

What's Included

Your Full Membership gives you access to:

• 🌱 All nine recordings from the 2026 Seed to Dye to Seed Garden Series

• 🌿 Practical garden demonstrations and seasonal growing guidance

• 🍃 Advice on sowing, propagation, cultivation, harvesting and seed saving

• 💙 The annual Indigo Harvest session recording

• 🎥 The opportunity to revisit recordings throughout your membership

• 📚 Supporting resources within the Academy

• 🌍 Ongoing community discussions with fellow dyers and growers

Please note: The 2026 sessions have already taken place. This listing provides access to their recordings, not participation in the original live sessions.

What You'll Learn

Throughout the series, Tristan guides you through the gardening year, exploring:

• Planning and establishing your dye garden

• Sowing seeds and propagating dye plants

• Caring for plants throughout the growing season

• Understanding the right time to harvest leaves and flowers

• Harvesting, cleaning and storing seeds

• Preparing your garden for the following year

Rather than rushing through the growing process, you can follow the seasons at your own pace, returning to the recordings whenever the time is right for your own garden.

Meet Your Tutor

Tristan Lienhard is an organic gardener, professional seed saver and educator with extensive experience in growing, harvesting and processing dye plants.

Through the Academy, Tristan shares a practical, seasonal approach to growing colour, connecting soil, plant and pigment through observation, experience and an understanding of the natural world.

Included with Full Academy Membership

This purchase gives you Full Membership of the Natural Dyers & Growers Academy, not just access to the Garden Series.

Your membership also includes:

• 🌱 Seed to Dye to Seed – Seasonal Garden Series

• 🌿 The Sukumo Project – Growing, harvesting, composting and fermenting indigo

• 💙 Indigo Week – Our annual celebration of indigo and its many processes

• 🎨 Colours of the World – Expanding from 2027

• 💬 Dyeworks: Real Conversations – Discussions about professional practice and natural dyeing

• 📚 Academy Resource Library – Recordings, resources and practical learning materials

• 🌍 Our International Community – Connect with natural dyers, growers and makers around the world

As the Academy grows with new projects, annual events and learning opportunities, so does the value of your membership.

Join now and lock in your membership price for as long as you remain continuously subscribed.

How It Works

1. Purchase your Full Academy Membership through this listing.

2. Receive your invitation to join the Natural Dyers & Growers Academy by email.

3. Activate your Academy account.

4. Access all nine 2026 Garden Series recordings and supporting resources.

5. Explore the wider Academy membership, events and community.

In a Nutshell

🌱 Grow dye plants with confidence.

🍃 Explore an entire growing season through nine recorded sessions.

🎥 Learn at your own pace and revisit the recordings during your membership.

🌍 Become part of an international community of natural dyers and growers.

💙 Continue your journey beyond the garden with Indigo Week, The Sukumo Project and more.