About The Workshop
About The Workshop

About The Workshop

tezomeya offers a dye workshop so that anyone can experience the natural dye process. You can experience simple dyeing (indigo, safflower) or even complicated time-consuming ones. You can bring your own things to dye or choose from our un-dyed product selection.

Indigo dyeing experience

Indigo dyeing experience

A simple indigo dyeing experience that takes about 2-3 hours.
This is ideal for those who would like to try indigo dyeing while visiting Kyoto, or for those who are interested in indigo dyeing but do not know where to start. Indigo dyeing is a very special kind of dyeing among natural dyes. The traditional method of dyeing using fermentation is very difficult, but the indigo dyeing method we usually use at tezomeya, using Indian indigo and chemical building, is relatively easy. Please use it as an entry tool for natural dyeing.

*Advance reservations are required for this class.

Available Dates Monday or Tuesday, but not every week (irregular)
Item to be dyed May be brought in. Up to 200g per person per item.
It is also possible to choose from tezomeya products (additional charge required).
Number of participants Up to 3
Experience Fee 4,400 yen per person (experience fee only)
Instructor Tomoko Kamihara
How to apply Please apply using the “Contact Us” form.
Standard natural dyeing experience

Standard natural dyeing experience

The six-hour dyeing experience begins with boiling the dried dye from plants and trees to make the dye solution.
You will choose one of the nine basic colors of tezomeya (Kihada-iro, Haizakura-iro, Ni-iro, Toki-iro, Ebizome-iro, Fujinezu-iro, Nibi-iro, Oitake-iro, Miru-iro) on the day of the workshop, and go through the process of boiling dyestuff, mordanting, dyeing, and washing in a single day. Of course, you can take home the finished work on the same day.
We recommend this class for those who are interested in natural dyeing but do not know how to do it, or for those who know how to do it but would like to try it for the first time.

*Advance reservations are required for this class.

Available Dates Monday or Tuesday, but not every week (irregular)
Item to be dyed May be brought in. Up to 400g per person per item.
It is also possible to choose from tezomeya products (additional charge required).
Number of participants Up to 3
Experience Fee It varies depending on the number of participants.
  One person: 13,200 yen (per person)
  Two people: 9,350 yen (per person)
  Three people: 7,150 yen (per person)
Instructor Tomoko Kamihara
How to apply Please apply using the “Contact Us” form.