Weave Your Forest Story

Wildcraft Dyeing provides extensive training and mentorship on how to forage, process and use natural dyes from plants, lichens and mushrooms.

We also provide expertise in textiles with a strong focus in historical fiber research. Wildcraft Dyeing is based on a passion for sustainability, and a love for exploring natural dyeing, especially here in the Pacific Northwest of North America to create vibrant colours. We have been teaching workshops related to natural dyeing, spinning and weaving since 2003.

Zoe is a Vancouver, BC-based fibre artist and biologist of Highland Scot descent whose work is rooted in an intimate relationship with land, ecology, and living systems. Her work bridges ancestral craft with scientific knowledge, drawing on foraged plant and fungal materials to produce natural dyes and hand-processed fibres that reflect the landscape. Through wool processing, hand spinning, dyeing and weaving, she creates textiles that embody both ecological processes and cultural memory.

She has been teaching historical natural dye techniques and other fiber arts in over 50 workshops internationally for 25 years. Her main focus is on two-eyed seeing workshops with her co-instructor Nadine McSpadden (Shuswap First Nations), balancing science and traditional ways of knowing. 

If you like what you read here, please consider hosting a natural dye workshop for your community, friends or association. We are based in Vancouver, BC.

historysciencefiber@gmail.com