Indigo Dye Workshop

Forage for your dye from nature, grow some in your garden, or grab from your kitchen!  In this class we'll discuss why we need to properly prep our fabrics, use natural materials to get lasting colors, and how to use modifiers to change shades or fix your work.  Even some shibori and bundle dyeing.  Each student will get to dye...

Come in and learn the traditional art of shibori with indigo dye in this beginner class.  We start, learning how to begin your own indigo vat, using pre reduced indigo, and the history of indigo. 3-5 folding, tieing and binding resist techniques will be shown. Select the few you're drawn to and dye some of the plain items you have lying around...

Learn the fascinating art of shibori dyeing! In this workshop, we’ll explore four unique shibori dyeing techniques. You’ll leave with a set of awesome indigo tea towels and the knowledge to take on future dyeing projects of your own. What is shibori? It’s a Japanese dyeing technique that typically involves folding, twisting or bunching cloth...

Learn the traditional art of shibori dye techniques and magical indigo dye in this extended session. 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 wonder blue pattern creations....

Learn how to silkscreen your own design using a stencil! Great into to silkscreen class. Using your design, we start immediately cutting stencils with an exacto blade.    We'll experiment printing with multiple inks, dyes, and resists so you can see the many possibilities silkscreening can offer. Students should come with their design...

New workshop!  Sort of. This one is a combination of bundle and rust dyeing, meeting a full 3 hours with take home projects to keep you going. Bundle dyeing is a great way to sample colors that you collect, forage, or save from the food waste bin. Your collection of dye stuff doesn't have to be grand to sample the different color ways in this...

Flour, wax, gum, and glue are all really interesting ways to create texture and pattern on your fabrics. In this workshop we will experiment with all of them. We'll work with a variety of resists that benefit from maximum dry time, play with wax and dip that piece in an organic indigo vat, use brayers and screens to add texture, and set up our thickener...

Natural Dyeing Basics: Mordanting Fabrics and Prepping Dye Baths The most important and essential step when dyeing with nature is mordanting. Four types of mordanting techniques will be shown for protein and cellulose fibers, including Alum, Aluminum Acetate and "dunging," Tannins, and even Soy Milk. Bring 3 pieces of cellulose fiber and 1 piece of...