Safi Experience Centre · Accra, Ghana

Experience Ghana like never before.

An interactive, fun and culturally enriching outdoor Batik & Tie-Dye workshop for groups. Gather at least four friends or family, design your own fabric and be creative together.

  • Batik & tie-dye
  • Outdoors
  • Saturdays & Sundays
  • Groups of 4+
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A visitor holding up her red and orange tie-dye cloth
The big reveal
Stamping a wax pattern onto white cloth for batik
Wax stamping
A visitor hanging her dyed cloth to dry in the sun
Drying in the sun

Try it before you come

The dye studio.

Pick a technique and a dye, then tap the cloth. Layer colours to see them mix, just as they do in the dye bath.

Technique
Dye

Tap the cloth to add dye.At the centre, our tutors help you do it for real.

Two crafts, one workshop

Batik or tie-dye?

Visitors stamping wax patterns onto cloth at the batik tables

Batik

A wax-resist technique: wherever the wax goes, the dye can’t. Your pattern appears when the wax comes off.

  1. Design your pattern

    Choose your motifs and plan where they go on the cloth.

  2. Apply the wax

    Stamp or draw your pattern onto the cloth with hot wax.

  3. Dye the cloth

    The dye colours everything the wax hasn’t covered.

  4. Reveal

    Remove the wax to reveal your pattern, then hang your cloth to dry.

A tutor and visitors preparing cloth together at the workshop tables

Tie-dye

Fold, twist and bind the cloth so the dye reaches some parts and not others. Every fold makes a different pattern.

  1. Fold or twist

    Fold, pleat, crumple or twist the cloth into your chosen shape.

  2. Bind it

    Tie it tightly so the dye can’t reach the bound parts.

  3. Apply the dye

    Add one colour or several, and watch them blend.

  4. Unwrap and reveal

    Rinse, untie and open it up to see your pattern.

Your session

Creative, hands-on and fun.

  • Tutor-led

    Our tutors teach the basic design techniques and make the whole process as fun and educational as possible.

  • Creative freedom

    The design is yours. Explore patterns and techniques, and make a piece that reflects you.

  • Outdoors in Accra

    Workshops run outdoors at the Safi Experience Centre in Accra, Ghana.

  • Group sessions

    Every session is for a group of at least four people: a perfect way to be creative together with friends or family.

At the centre

Moments from the workshop.

  • A visitor holding up her red and orange tie-dye cloth
    The big reveal
  • Stamping a wax pattern onto white cloth
    Stamping the wax
  • A tutor and visitors preparing cloth at the tables
    Preparing the cloth together
  • Visitors stamping wax patterns at the batik tables
    Batik at the tables
  • A visitor hanging her dyed cloth to dry in the sun
    Drying in the sun

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What visitors say.

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“I fell in love with the ambience immediately I got to the Safi Experience Center.”
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Plan your visit

Come and make something.

When and where

Workshops
Every Saturday and Sunday
Group size
Group sessions only, minimum 4 people
Opening hours
Monday to Saturday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Address
2nd Amed Koo Crescent, Accra, Ghana
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Book a session

Tell us your preferred date and group size (minimum 4) and we’ll confirm your session.

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Bring your group. Make something together.

Gather at least four friends or family, learn from our tutors and make a cloth that’s entirely yours.

Book a session