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Maritime Festival 2026 – Botanical Printing


May 29, 2026
Location: The Yurt Behind the Manor House, Rathlin Island

Times: 11am until 3pm (drop-in)

Also known as eco-printing is an environmentally friendly art form where natural pigments and tannins from leaves and plants are transferred directly onto fabric or paper.

In this full day drop-in workshop participants will create botanical prints on specially prepared cloth squares using a selection of flowers picked on the Island. Taking place in the Yurt behind the Manor House on Rathlin Island from 11am – allowing people arriving on the 10am ferry from Ballycastle to take part.

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As part of Rathlin’s Maritime Festival
The workshops are for all ages – under 16 years accompanied by an adult.

About Gillian Steel

Gillian Steel is an artist, filmmaker and design activist who will be living on Rathlin over the coming year. During this she will be offering a series of environmentally sustainable creative interactions including spinning, printing and filmmaking workshops which draw on the fibres, colours and chemistry of the island’s plants and flowers.

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