Celebrate spring by creating beautiful and colorful festive eggs using all-natural dyes made from ingredients found in your kitchen.
In this hands-on workshop, use food-based materials like purple cabbage, onion skins, hibiscus tea, and turmeric to dye a set of eggs.
Instructor Laura Hricko walks you through each step of preparing dye baths that produce blues, warm reds and oranges, bright yellows, and soft grays. Using rubber bands, wax crayons, and botanical materials, explore creative techniques to create both bold and delicate patterns on your eggs before dyeing them.
By the end of the workshop, leave with your own set of naturally dyed eggs and a complete recipe card to continue this tradition at home. It’s the perfect way to welcome spring and enjoy a colorful afternoon of creativity!
Participants will need to bring their own eggs to use for dyeing.
Location
Grove Studio 104 & 105
Instructor
Laura Hricko
Laura Hricko is an artist, educator, and lifelong Philadelphian dedicated to the conviction that art is transformative and capable of enriching the lives of all people. Hricko’s artistic practice involves various fiber arts techniques including sewing, quilting, embroidery, and textile surface design. Most recently, Hricko has been captivated by the processes of natural dyeing, which allow her to feel a deeper connection with nature and history, as she employs these ancient craft techniques to coax color from homegrown, foraged, and food-waste natural dye sources.
