Exploring Indigo, Shibori and other Resists
- All levels
- 18 and older
- $380
- Earn 3,800 reward points
- 10 Grattan St, Brooklyn, NY
- 14 hours over 2 sessions
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Better Than Jam's Store & Studio @ 10 Grattan St, Brooklyn, NY
Unleash your creativity and explore the ancient art of Shibori dye techniques using natural indigo. Join us at Better Than Jam's Store & Studio for a hands-on workshop where you'll learn traditional Japanese methods alongside tie-dye techniques from Africa and India. Discover the cultural significance of Shibori while creating unique, one-of-a-kind pieces to keep or share.
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Unlock the secrets of fabric marbling in this enchanting workshop where you'll learn the fundamentals of this mesmerizing technique. Discover how to select fabrics, prepare a marbling vat, and create stunning permanent prints. Develop your unique style and palette as you create a suite of beautiful patterns.
Learn the traditional art of shibori dye techniques, other dye resists, and magical indigo dye in this extended session. The creation of both iron and fructose indigo vats are shown (others if requested), and a great number of dye resists that are found throughout the world. We discuss the historically significance of this dye and how special it is culturally for so many.
This is a special intensive that will meet two full days, allowing for more techniques and skills to be demonstrated and more time to accomplish them! Don't worry we break for lunch, so it won't be completely exhausting. Just a lovely informative time full of wonderful blue pattern creations. The class often molds to the students who attend. No two sessions are alike.
Day 1am
Intro techniques are introduced and we will focus on creating an all natural indigo using ferrous sulfate, and the history of the process. 8 traditional Japanese dyeing techniques will be shown including Suji, Itajime, Kanoko, Kumo/Tegumo, Ne-Maki and Arashi, along with similar processes that you'll find in China, Korea, Africa, and India.
DAY 1pm
Come back from lunch and check on our indigo vat! More difficult techniques are shown like Tatsumaki, Miura, Yanagi as well as Nui, a beginner stitch resist. We finish by speaking of the proper care for the fiber and washing. Students will be allow to take tools home with them to continue to work on pieces over the week.
Day 2am
On our 2nd Sunday we will learn how to balance a vat that's already been started and get into more difficult shibori techniques and fine tune what you have already learned.
Each student will also be able to create a mini fructose vat starter in a jar.
We will focus on stitching work and some "nice and easy" techniques to balance the hard stuff. We'll be stitching fabrics to form designs. Nui, Ori-Nui, Maki-Nui, Karamatsu, Guntai, capping, and Boshi will be shown, as well as create our fructose vat. Since the stitching will take some time you will most likely bring some work with you, but you are welcome to stitch your heart away. We also hope to sneak in a little batik play. If you're not to focused on your shibori works, each student is welcome to try a bit of wax resist.
Day 2 pm
Come back from lunch and STUDIO TIME and a Movie! Finish up what you would like to, experiment with more pieces, or stitch while you watch "Blue Alchemy." And others things I want you to see :-)
18yr+
6 students max
Students are welcome to bring natural fabrics they want to dye, but some materials provided the first day. An email will be sent out with signup to explain all details. All students receive a hand bound print out with information, bandanas, tea towels, and tote or equivalent along with a Better Than Jam baggie to carry everything back with you week to week. An email will be sent out the week of your class to explain all the details.
*This series used to be 4 three hour sessions, but not all NYers have that kind of time! Or if you're coming from out of town, it's more likely you'll be able to attend with two full Sundays. The class ends at 5pm but time is left open until 6pm just in case we need the extra time.
3 business days notice for refunds less a 5% non-refundable fee.
2 business days notice for credit to reschedule your date.
Less 2 business days notice we have the right to refuse refund or credit.
In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.
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"Better Than Jam" is the textile printing and fashion line of owner Karin Persan, since 2007. The newest space, post Covid, of the same name is now at 10 Grattan Street. There is a small showroom with remnants of the boutique that ran 10+ years that hosted handmade creations of local designers....
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Better Than Jam's Store & Studio
East Williamsburg, Brooklyn
10 Grattan St
Btwn Bogart St & Morgan Ave
Brooklyn, New York 11206 East Williamsburg, Brooklyn
10 Grattan St
Btwn Bogart St & Morgan Ave
Brooklyn, New York 11206
Directions: I am at 10 Grattan St, off the L train Morgan Ave stop, next to Pine Box Rock Shop. When you arrive, there's a buzzer on my white mailbox. It will take me a minute to gather and get to the door, but if it's more than a minute you can call/text 929-333-7552. If early, there's a coffee shop just down the block where you can hang and caffeinate. Directions: https://goo.gl/CyDXAk https://new.mta.info/ Watch for L train non-sense. Weekend parking is easy.
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