How to Dye Fabric with Sea Urchins
In this workshop, you’ll help the kelp by dyeing fabric with the overpopulation of purple sea urchins! And meet live urchins on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Aquarium.
Sea Urchins are incredible creatures. However, due to human impact, their populations have gone unchecked, and they have consumed 95% of the kelp forests in California. In efforts to help the kelp and honor these magnificent animals, you’ll dye a scarf, pillowcase, and pocket squares using urchins from various kelp restoration projects along the West Coast. Join us at the intersection of environmental responsibility and artistic expression.
July 19, Saturday, at the Aquarium of the Bay, from 12:00 – 4:00.
PIER 39 The Embarcadero and Beach St, San Francisco, CA
$125, plus a $25 materials fee paid directly to the instructor
In this workshop, you’ll help the kelp by dyeing fabric with the overpopulation of purple sea urchins! And meet live urchins on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Aquarium.
Sea Urchins are incredible creatures. However, due to human impact, their populations have gone unchecked, and they have consumed 95% of the kelp forests in California. In efforts to help the kelp and honor these magnificent animals, you’ll dye a scarf, pillowcase, and pocket squares using urchins from various kelp restoration projects along the West Coast. Join us at the intersection of environmental responsibility and artistic expression.
July 19, Saturday, at the Aquarium of the Bay, from 12:00 – 4:00.
PIER 39 The Embarcadero and Beach St, San Francisco, CA
$125, plus a $25 materials fee paid directly to the instructor
In this workshop, you’ll help the kelp by dyeing fabric with the overpopulation of purple sea urchins! And meet live urchins on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Aquarium.
Sea Urchins are incredible creatures. However, due to human impact, their populations have gone unchecked, and they have consumed 95% of the kelp forests in California. In efforts to help the kelp and honor these magnificent animals, you’ll dye a scarf, pillowcase, and pocket squares using urchins from various kelp restoration projects along the West Coast. Join us at the intersection of environmental responsibility and artistic expression.
July 19, Saturday, at the Aquarium of the Bay, from 12:00 – 4:00.
PIER 39 The Embarcadero and Beach St, San Francisco, CA
$125, plus a $25 materials fee paid directly to the instructor
What’s included:
Personal dye station with ingredients for a half-gallon sea urchin dye bath
One silk pillowcase with zipper (14”)
One wool scarf (8x54”)
Two silk pocket squares
One urchin shell (also known as a test)
Why urchin dye?
Purple sea urchins have eaten 95% of the kelp along the California coast.
The urchins are not the villains; rather, human-caused climate change created the “urchin problem.”
Kelp forests can sequester up to 20 times more carbon per unit area than land-based forests.
Kelp is home to thousands of different oceanic species.
Creating natural dye from sea urchins creates an incentive for the removal of sea urchins from the oceans.
Urchin dye is a way of honoring these magnificent creatures rather than discarding them.