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WORKSHOPS AT TU DELFT HORTUS BOTANICUS

This year’s workshops embrace the theme “Plant as Passenger,” inviting you to explore how plants travel into art through print, colour, and stitch.
BOTANICAL COLOUR & EMBROIDERY

PRINT & STITCH

BOTANICAL GEL PLATE PRINTING 

​BOTANICAL COLOUR & EMBROIDERY

  • Thursday 11 June 2026

  • Saturday 25 July 2026

  • Saturday 19 September 2026

  • Saturday 24 October 2026

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In this workshop plants become your travel companions across fabric and thread. Their colours and shapes move through your hands, leaving traces as they pass from nature into textile. Over four hours, you will explore the world of botanical colour through eco printing and hand embroidery.

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Part One - Eco Printing

We begin with an introduction to botanical colour and dye plants. You will experiment with fresh and dried plants to create your eco-printed fabric - a unique imprint of nature’s palette.
 

Part Two - Stitching with Botanical Colour

Next, you’ll create a small textile piece using your eco print as the starting point. You will work with botanically dyed wool and silk fibres, threads, and small wooden beads. Dora will demonstrate a variety of embroidery techniques and offer guidance on combining colours, textures, and materials. Working at your own pace, you will use your intuition and the subtle beauty of plant-based colours to craft a miniature textile artwork. 

At the end of the workshop, you’ll take home your embroidered piece and eco-printed fabric - a personal record of your time with the plants.

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Practical information:​

  • Workshop of 4 hours 

  • Location: TU Delft Hortus Botanicus

  • Time: 11.00 till 15.30 with a half-hour lunch break

  • Participants: min. 4, max. 10

  • Price: €85,-

  • All the materials are included: fabrics, fresh and dry plants, botanically dyed wool and silk, wooden beads.

  • Entrance ticket is included in the workshop price

  • No previous experience is required. Whether you are new to embroidery or looking to build on your existing skills, you will be supported step by step.

  • Language: Dutch, English

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​PRINT & STITCH

  • Saturday 1 August 2026

  • Saturday 21 August 2026

  • Saturday 3 October

In this workshop, plants become travellers across fabric and thread — not through botanical colour, but through their shapes, textures, and the playful marks they leave behind. Using textile paints and fresh plant materials, you’ll explore how nature can move through your hands into print and stitch.

Part One - Printing with Plants (Textile Paints)

You’ll begin by learning the technique of monoprinting on fabric using plants as natural stamps. The focus is on expressive, painterly, and graphic impressions created by leaves, stems, and petals.
The process is direct, intuitive, and full of small surprises.

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Part Two - Stitching the Print

​​​In the second half, you’ll shift from printing to threadwork. Using simple embroidery stitches, you’ll respond to your print by adding texture, detail, and rhythm. Whether you’re completely new to embroidery or already familiar with the basics, Dora will guide you step by step.

Working at your own pace, you’ll combine print and stitch to create a small textile piece where the plant’s journey continues — from form, to paint, to thread.

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At the end of the workshop, you’ll take home a unique piece where paint, plant shapes, and stitch come together — a small record of your creative dialogue with nature.

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​Practical information:
  • Workshop of 4 hours

  • Location: TU Delft Hortus Botanicus

  • Time: 11.00 - 15.30 with a half-hour lunch break

  • Participants: min. 4, max. 10

  • Price: €85,-

  • All the materials are provided: textile paints, mediums, a variety of fabrics, embroidery threads, needles, scissors, brushes

  • Entrance ticket in included in the workshop price

  • Language: Dutch, English

Sign up here:

BOTANICAL GEL PLATE PRINTING 

  • Thursday 25 June 2026

  • Saturday 8 August 2026

  • Saturday 5 September 2026

  • Saturday 10 October 2026

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In this workshop, plants become travellers across paper — carrying their shapes, veins, and textures into layered prints. Using a gel plate, acrylic paint, and fresh plant materials, you’ll explore how nature leaves its traces as it moves through your hands into image.

Part One - Introduction to Gel Printing

You’ll learn the basics of working with a gel plate, acrylic paint, and fresh plant materials. By pressing leaves and stems onto the paint, you’ll create crisp, detailed botanical impressions on different kinds of paper.
 

Part Two - Building Layers

As you continue, you’ll experiment with colour, layering, and composition. Gel printing is a playful and intuitive technique — full of small surprises — revealing textures and details that often go unnoticed in daily life.

At the end of the workshop, you’ll take home a set of your own botanical prints: a collection of impressions made with the plants that travelled with you across the page.

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​Practical information:
  • Workshop of 4 hours

  • Location: TU Delft Hortus Botanicus

  • Time: 11.00 - 15.30 with a half-hour lunch break

  • Participants: min. 4, max. 8

  • Price: €75,-

  • All the materials are included: various types of paper and acrylic paints, mediums, gelli printing plates, printing tools

  • Entrance ticket in included in the workshop price

  • Language: Dutch, English

Sign up here:

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