Botanical Tote Bag Eco Print Workshop Knysna (5 July ’25)
Join Sanet for a hands-on day of eco printing—where leaves, flowers, and fabric come together in a beautiful alchemy of nature and creativity.
Discover the magic of using plant materials to leave their shapes, colours, and delicate imprints on cloth. Through steaming or boiling, natural dyes from leaves and blooms are transferred onto fabric, creating unique botanical prints that you’ll take home at the end of the day.
Expect laughter, learning, and a sense of wonder as you explore this mindful, nature-inspired art form.
Date: Saturday, July 5th 2025
Time: 9:00 AM- 13:00 PM (4 hours)
Place: The Deckle Edge @ 19 Queen Street, Knysna
Workshop space is limited, booking is essential
All materials for the day are included in the price;
- Fabric
- pipes
- mordants
- leaves
- steam pot
- gas
- paper
- notes
*Each attendee will receive refreshments and a 10% Deckle shopping coupon for the day.
Students to Bring: Apron
Deckle Edge To supply: Surgical gloves, biscuits and refreshments
Recommended age: All welcome from 15 years and up.
What you will learn:
You will learn how to print eco style using natural pigments and plants on material.
See a Demonstration and receive your notes.
In notes:
- Learn about natural pigments in plants
- What are in the leave, tannins, and acids
- Identifying the leaves in your area
- What happen when combining them with different mordants, moisture and heat on fabric
- How to bundle the fabric
- How to prepare the fabric for the process
- What type of fabric you can use.
About the facilitator:
Sanet Visser facilitated printmaking workshops at Rupert Museum and Butterfly Art Project.
She completed a 3-year course, with a diploma at Ruth Prowse School of Art, in Visual Arts. Major in Printmaking also receive training in Craft, design, fine art, photography, events.
Living out her passion facilitating art classes at Imibala Trust and De Hoop Primary school Somerset West. She Founded SA Art in 2004, working for the benefit of emerging visual artists. Saart was a finalist in the South African Nedbank Arts and Culture Trust Awards She was born on a farm and the characteristics of farming inspired her, it demands endurance, ploughing the earth, preparing it, hard work, patience, and expectation. She is influenced, as an artist, by people and their personal growth in life
Faculty Trainer at Butterfly Art Project Reference of training: https://www.butterflyartproject.org/meet-the-faculty
Huis Horizon Fundraising workshop: https://www.huishorison.org.za/en/ekoprint-werkswinkel-23-july/
Lino printmaking at Rupert Museum https://rupertmuseum.org/events/museum-saturday-lino-printing-workshop/
Papermaking at Somerset College
If you need to cancel your workshop booking, please let us know by 11 a.m the weekday before the workshop. To help us support the facilitator, late cancellations will not be refunded. A credit for future events could be granted at our discretion.
R700.00
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Join Sanet for a hands-on day of eco printing—where leaves, flowers, and fabric come together in a beautiful alchemy of nature and creativity.
Discover the magic of using plant materials to leave their shapes, colours, and delicate imprints on cloth. Through steaming or boiling, natural dyes from leaves and blooms are transferred onto fabric, creating unique botanical prints that you’ll take home at the end of the day.
Expect laughter, learning, and a sense of wonder as you explore this mindful, nature-inspired art form.
Date: Saturday, July 5th 2025
Time: 9:00 AM- 13:00 PM (4 hours)
Place: The Deckle Edge @ 19 Queen Street, Knysna
Workshop space is limited, booking is essential
All materials for the day are included in the price;
- Fabric
- pipes
- mordants
- leaves
- steam pot
- gas
- paper
- notes
*Each attendee will receive refreshments and a 10% Deckle shopping coupon for the day.
Students to Bring: Apron
Deckle Edge To supply: Surgical gloves, biscuits and refreshments
Recommended age: All welcome from 15 years and up.
What you will learn:
You will learn how to print eco style using natural pigments and plants on material.
See a Demonstration and receive your notes.
In notes:
- Learn about natural pigments in plants
- What are in the leave, tannins, and acids
- Identifying the leaves in your area
- What happen when combining them with different mordants, moisture and heat on fabric
- How to bundle the fabric
- How to prepare the fabric for the process
- What type of fabric you can use.
About the facilitator:
Sanet Visser facilitated printmaking workshops at Rupert Museum and Butterfly Art Project.
She completed a 3-year course, with a diploma at Ruth Prowse School of Art, in Visual Arts. Major in Printmaking also receive training in Craft, design, fine art, photography, events.
Living out her passion facilitating art classes at Imibala Trust and De Hoop Primary school Somerset West. She Founded SA Art in 2004, working for the benefit of emerging visual artists. Saart was a finalist in the South African Nedbank Arts and Culture Trust Awards She was born on a farm and the characteristics of farming inspired her, it demands endurance, ploughing the earth, preparing it, hard work, patience, and expectation. She is influenced, as an artist, by people and their personal growth in life
Faculty Trainer at Butterfly Art Project Reference of training: https://www.butterflyartproject.org/meet-the-faculty
Huis Horizon Fundraising workshop: https://www.huishorison.org.za/en/ekoprint-werkswinkel-23-july/
Lino printmaking at Rupert Museum https://rupertmuseum.org/events/museum-saturday-lino-printing-workshop/
Papermaking at Somerset College
If you need to cancel your workshop booking, please let us know by 11 a.m the weekday before the workshop. To help us support the facilitator, late cancellations will not be refunded. A credit for future events could be granted at our discretion.
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