🌿 Professional Natural Dyeing Course 2026
One-Time Payment – €1,550
Welcome! Enrolment for the 2026 course opens on Wednesday, 9 July 2025 at 8:00pm (BST).
Once booked, you’ll be invited into our private course platform with an introduction module that outlines your year ahead. From there, your learning journey begins!
❓ Not sure if you’re ready to commit?
Join the free Info & Q&A Zoom session
🗓 Wednesday, 9 July 2025 at 🕡 6:30pm (BST)
📍 inside the Natural Dyers & Growers Academy (Reception Area)
We’ll walk through everything together. Feel free to ask anything.
✨ Course bookings open that same evening at 8:00pm.
🧵 Want to Stay in the Loop?
Join our free Natural Dyers Academy community to receive updates, attend live dye-alongs, hop into open Zoom sessions, and explore our student work showcase for inspiration.
✨ When you purchase the course, you'll automatically become a full Academy member for two years—giving you access to all Co~Lab spaces, member-only threads, and bonus experiences.
Please note: Co~Lab access is available only to current students and paid Academy members.
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💳 Payment Details
This listing is for a once-off payment of €1,550 for full access to the 12-month course.
Prefer monthly payments? Head to the €145/month listing.
🇮🇪 Irish Students – NOTS-Funded Option
We’re delighted to confirm that Irish students are eligible for 40% funding through NOTS.
To access the discount:
The course must be booked directly via NOTS
Monthly payments are not available for this option
NOTS may also cover part of the Fibre & Dye Box (confirmation pending)
You can still contact us to reserve a spot, but final booking must be through NOTS once their portal opens.
📚 What’s Inside the Course
This is a 12-month online learning experience built around project-based work, tailored to your fibres, tools, and studio practice. It includes:
12 learning modules (released monthly)
Live Zoom meetings twice a month
Recordings available after each session
Access to topic-specific support spaces
1:1 feedback session during your final project
One optional 4-day in-person module in August
Course certificate upon completion of the portfolio work
🗓️ Monthly Topics
January: Fibres and their differences
February: All about Mordanting
March: Using Tannins
April: Creating Blues
May: Creating Yellows
June: Creating Reds
July: Creating Purples
August: Secondary Colours & Modifiers
September: Lake Making and Other Processes
October: Printing and Advanced Techniques
November: Industry Standards & Personal Project
December: Final Projects & Presentations
🧺 Materials & Tools
You'll receive a detailed materials list after booking. Optional discounted starter kits include:
Ready to Go Dye Box
Fibre Starter Box
Have a preferred supplier? Great—use your regular fibres and fabrics to keep your portfolio fully aligned with your personal practice.
🌱 Growing Colour
Five bonus sessions led by Tristan Lienhard teach you how to grow and harvest dye plants like Woad, Madder, and Weld, with an emphasis on organic methods and seed saving.
💬 What Past Students Say
See work from past students in the Exhibition Gallery of the Academy.
Scroll down for testimonials from the 2024 cohort—they speak volumes!
🎓 Outcome
By the end of this course, you’ll be ready to:
Run your own professional natural dye practice
Integrate dyeing into your creative business
Confidently teach others
Or simply become a deeply informed and creative home dyer
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« The Natural Dye Course offered by Apple Oak has been a wonderful experience. It's a well blended curriculum of the history and science of natural dyeing. Jennifer does an excellent job or leading and supporting her students through the course work. She provides support through problem solving, expanding on specific topics as needed and presenting clear and concise information. It is also a very accessible platform that has made it easy for myself who has a learning disorder (reading is hard) to navigate and use. Overall I would highly recommend the professional dye course to anyone seeking to further their knowledge of natural dyes and the fiber arts through dyeing. - Valeria Q. (Ireland)
« I have found this course really worthwhile, Jennifer is super knowledgeable, helpful and patient. At the beginning I was a little overwhelmed by the portfolio work involved but once I got stuck into it, I’m absolutely loving it! Seeing colour appear before my eyes from only tannin and iron has been so amazing and I can’t wait to move on to the other colors!!- Caroline B. (Switzerland)
« I am a complete novice when it comes to natural dying. The course sounded very comprehensive and supportive so I decided to give it a whirl. I am now almost 5 months into it and am absolutely loving it so much. Although it took me a while to get my head into the space of measurements and science, Jennifer and Tristan were very supportive with questions asked and made sure everyone was on the page. It has opened up a whole new world to me and I would thoroughly recommend it. There has been a lot covered so far so my advice would be to tip away at the work so that it doesn't become overwhelming especially if your a beginner like myself. I'm looking forward to meeting the class in person and seeing the studio in the flesh. - Louise G. (Ireland)
« Jennifer and Tristen have put together an amazing course! I have been naturally dying for for a number of years and thought a knew a lot, until I began my journey with The Natural Dyers Academy. Each module brings something new, and shifts my way of looking at a process. Although the Academy is over zoom, it never feels impersonal. The cohort of learners are so willing to help one another and to offer encouragement. Jennifer has really created a nurturing learning environment. Jennifer and Tristin are always available if a question arises and you never have to wait until the next meeting to raise a question. I am so excited about creating my own work portfolio and plan on filling in with more of my own recipes based upon what I am learning. - Joanmarie S. (USA)
