Natural Dyeing & Garden Tour Event
Sustainable Fashion Week 2025
As part of Sustainable Fashion Week 2025, we hosted our first event, where we taught participants how to eco-print using the bundle dyeing method with freshly harvested dye flowers picked from our organic dye beds.
We grow organic coreopsis, black knight, dyers chamomile, woad, geranium, and pink cosmos flowers. Each dye plant produces a colourful pigment and an impression when eco-printed onto natural fibres.
The dye garden is located in a 16-acre community garden, managed by Rosamund Community Garden and Surrey Wildlife Trust, which is run by volunteers who share the same values in protecting wildlife and native plant species. Our dye garden is part of a fashion commons community, where we contribute our time and our passion for fashion activism through shared learning and skills exchange.
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Textile dyeing has devastating effects on the environment and on communities where textile dyeing and wet processing takes place, and is responsible for 20% pollution of global clean water pollution (European Parliament, 2023).
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At Kindred Cloth Collective, we have created a framework that inherits a circular system and promotes soil-to-soil from seed to composting dye waste material, or reusing used dye material to make drawing and printing inks for fine art and textiles uses.
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