Black Walnut Fiber Dye Party
with Elspeth Hay
Friday, November 20
1pm - 4 or 5pm (dark! or til we finish!)

Did you know that black walnuts can dye wool and other animal fibers a beautiful rich brown? Bring your light-or-white colored yarn and animal-fiber garments to a black walnut dye party! Together we'll prepare fibers for dying, learn how to make a vat of dye, and go through the dyeing process from start to finish over an outdoor fire. Garments will be ready for pick up the following day. 

Elspeth Hay is a willow basket weaver, radio journalist, and author of the award-winning 2025 book Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. She lives in Wellfleet, where she is deeply immersed in the materials and foods of our local ecosystem.