IN PERSON VIEWING PARTY! Livestream Britt Boles’ Fresh Indigo Five Ways in Seattle!

Description

In-person Viewing Party at Botanical Colors Studio

503 S Michigan St. Ste B, Seattle, WA 98108

Streaming “Fresh Indigo Five Ways – Blender, Salt, Tataki-Zome and More”  taught by Brittany Boles, Seaspell Fiber

July 20, 2024 from 9:30-12:30PM Pacific

The workshop will be recorded and available until October 20, 2024

Don’t live in the PNW and want to watch from your own indigo patch?  Register for Britt’s  live online workshop here.

Already purchased the workshop and you want to attend our gathering?  Email us here

What you’ll get in this workshop

• Live, projected viewing access to Fresh Indigo Five Ways, plus the video link for future viewing
• Fresh indigo to use, plus a healthy live indigo plant to take home!
• A selection of fabrics to try the techniques
• We will have blenders, mallets, soy milk, ice and rock salt for the techniques
• Sample Vibrant Valley’s Indigo Paste for pigment painting
• Light refreshments

We are excited to host Brittany Boles of Seaspell Fiber for an online workshop using fresh leaf indigo (Persicaria tinctoria) and an array of techniques to get the most color out of your precious indigo crop.  Brittany is a wonderful instructor and we’re honored to work with her again and offer this workshop. This is our most popular indigo workshop as many people grow Japanese indigo and are looking for ways to capture the beautiful, elusive color.

What is included in this workshop? In this Intro to Fresh Leaf Indigo Dyeing: Blender, Salt, Tataki-Zome and More, Britt will demo multiple ways to use fresh indigo to extract seafoam blues, emerald greens, and indirubin purples with various natural fibers. As a special bonus, she’ll also show how to use our new Vibrant Valley Blue Indigo Paste with soy and cellulose fibers for beautiful saturated pigment painting!

Workshop Details

What will we create? We’ll dive into seafoam blender blues, turquoise salt mash, and Tataki-zome leaf prints. Three hands-on applications for the freshest alive blue hues…and a bonus! indirubin-pickled Indigo (left over salt mash), fresh overdye over other garden colors, and fresh lake making (with leftover blender liquid). We’ll also try out Vibrant Valley Blue Indigo Paste as a pigment to use for saturated painting and printing.

These materials are provided at Botanical Colors studio
Persicaria tinctoria Japanese Indigo plants
Blender
Scissors
Salt
Large bowl
Hammer, mallet, or a palm-sized smooth rock
Small bucket
Various scoured protein fibers(silk) and cellulose fibers(cotton, linen)- small/sample size pieces- some dry and some wetted out.
Soy beans (soaked and made into fresh soymilk) or plain, premade commercial soymilk.
Muslin, cheesecloth, or elastic paint strainer bag
Rubber band/string
Ice/icepacks
Mason jar with lid
Watercolor paper/brush

Vibrant Valley Blue Indigo Paste

Participation guidelines The purchase of this online workshop and document download is for 1 person and the link to the recorded video is for the purchaser’s use only. Please respect the artist’s expertise and generosity and don’t share or distribute her material or content without express written permission from both Brittany Boles of Seaspell Fiber and Botanical Colors. We appreciate your cooperation.

Cancellation policy All sales are final with no refunds.

About Brittany Boles:
Brittany Boles is founder of the Indigo Pigment Extraction Methods global network, Blue Biographies interview series, and co-founder of Indigofest. She has been nurturing a relationship with indigo for 8 years and brings 20 years of experience as an artist/teacher/musician/poet to her practice. Community color and local source connections are the inspiration for Britt’s work with farmers, schools, and local textile artisans.

Many lovingly call Britt an “indigo doula,” for her patience and love for the indigo plant and bringing its color into this world. In this Fresh Indigo Five Ways – Blender, Salt, Tataki-Zome and More! class, Britt brings that same patience in her teaching and sharing of lots of exciting and helpful information on the nuances of growing, harvesting and producing blue from indigo through the blender and salt method as well as Tataki-zome leaf prints.