This talk is part of our Mill Open Weekend celebrations.
This talk offers an insight into building an ethical yarn dyeing practice based on plant dyes, embracing their wild nature while learning how to balance unpredictability and control. It explores how developing processes, intentional material choices, and the use of modern tools for communication and transparency make it possible to respect natural resources while sustaining a viable business.
By exploring the roles of inspiration, challenges, and storytelling in running a business around plant dyes, Jule of woollentwine fibrestudio reflects on what it means to build a practice that can grow alongside nature—rather than in spite of it.
Jule will cover:
Working with the inherent unpredictability of plant dyes
Developing processes that support consistency without forcing control
Ethical sourcing and the role of custom yarn bases
Using visual storytelling and digital tools
Sustaining creativity, ethics, and business over the long term
Date: Saturday 6th June, 2026
Time: 1.00pm to 2.00pm - 1 hour. Please arrive 30 mins before event starts.
Location: The Court Room, South Molton Town Hall, EX36 3AB
Price: £5.00
Speaker Bio:
Jule is the owner of „woollentwine fibrestudio“, a small creative space all about botanical dyeing and natural yarns. She is passionate about creating naturally dyed yarns and fibres for crafters with a minimal ecological footprint, respecting our planets resources and focusing on sustainable production methods from sheep to skein. She creates her custom yarn bases in collaboration with carefully selected spinning mills, always aiming to highlight the natural properties of different sheep breeds, before she then gets to add colour to them using plants and historic dyeing techniques in her studio in Northern Germany.
Instagram: @woollentwine | YouTube: @woollentwine
