John Marshall's Treasure Trove! To end John Marshall's amazing workshop series we are having a fabulous pop up of his coveted Japanese Vintage textiles, treasures and more! Join us in Seattle for a wonderful day of shopping his incredible collection. This is the LAST TIME he will be traveling with these delights so this is not an event you want to miss!
We had such a great response to John’s two workshops that he’s graciously agreed to add a third workshop experience. We are thrilled to host our dear friend and natural dye collaborator in a rare in-person appearance and invite you to experience his humor and artistic expertise with Japanese textile and dye techniques.
Are you interested in using fresh indigo but didn’t have time to grow your own? We have a crop of indigo to share and invite you to join our live streaming event in Seattle. We’ll join the Zoom workshop as a group, project Britt on a large wall, and explore fresh leaf indigo. We’ll supply enough indigo to follow along with Britt and try the techniques that she covers, plus you will leave with your own indigo plant and tons of inspiration for future fresh leaf fun! You will receive a thriving indigo plant, fabric swatches, use of our tools and studio, and access to the online recording after the session. Seats are limited!
Online Workshop: Fresh Indigo Five Ways – Blender, Salt, Tataki-Zome and More! 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.
Experience The Colors of Tangier at The Mothership.
In this workshop you will be immersed in Moroccan culture, textiles, dye plants and in free creative play. You will be guided in a methodical approach to color building, using the natural dyes growing at the Mothership in Tangier, by Cara Piazza, a New York City based natural dyer and artist. In addition, you will have guided studio time for interdependent creative exploration of natural dye techniques. You will also have ample time to experience and explore the city, including visits to markets, artisans’ coops, and meeting local artists. She will be accompanied by Megumi Arai who will be assisting as part of the Botanical Colors team. Through this experience you will leave with a knowledge of how to extract color from raw natural dye stuffs, mordant (pre-treat your fiber to be able to take the dye), mix natural dye colors to make new exciting hues and leave having created your own swatch library testing the colors of Tangier. Cara will also cover how to shift your natural dyes you forage from the land with pH modifiers along with demonstrating eco – printing & how to make cosmic prints.
Description Sign up for The Nerd’s Guide To Mordants on the Sanborn Mills Farm website. $700, Aug 14, 2024 – August 18, 2024 (9am – 5pm) This is the nerd’s guide to mordants – what they are, why they are important and how they are used in natural dyeing. Everyone wants to create long-lasting and beautiful plant color and the best way to do that is to mordant properly. The class will experiment with the most popular plant-based tannins and alum accumulators, mineral salt mordants and other binders to see the effects on animal and plant fibers. Each mordant variable will be dyed so that we ... Read more
Conjuring Color Blends With Kathy Hattori in New Hampshire! Description Sign up for this class is on the Sanborn Mills Farm website. $700, Aug 21, 2024 – August 25, 2024 (9am – 5pm) Conjuring Color Blends With Kathy Hattori at Sanborn Mills Farm in New Hampshire is a course on how to blend colors using natural dyes in unexpected combinations to create beautiful results. The palette will be developed on natural fabrics including hemp, cotton, silk and wool, with an emphasis on cellulose fibers. We will work with natural dyes in raw, concentrated extract and liquid form, different mineral salts and indigo. Pre- and ... Read more
Arounna Khounnoraj – @bookhou teaches Block Printing with Indigo Overdye
We are very excited to have Arounna Khounnoraj from bookhou join us in Seattle for this workshop.
Join Arounna in this one-day workshop working with non-toxic textile paint and indigo overdye to print on cotton fabrics. This is the perfect introduction into using overall patterns and indigo to create spectacular results.
We are very excited to have Arounna Khounnoraj from bookhou join us in Seattle for this workshop.
Arounna Khounnoraj – @bookhou teaches Clay Resist with Indigo Overdye
Join Arounna in this one-day workshop working with thickened clay and indigo overdye to make patterned designs. This is a wonderful way to incorporate free-form brush designs into your work or use stamps or blocks for an allover design. Clay provides a beautiful resist to indigo and the look is distinctive, yet soft and lends itself to stitching or other embellishment.
Description A Three Day workshop held at Botanical Colors 503 S Michigan St Ste B Seattle WA 98108 Friday September 13-Sunday September 15 10AM-4PM We are very excited to have Arounna Khounnoraj from bookhou join us in Seattle for this workshop. Arounna brings her toolbox of colors, techniques and a keen design eye to guide this in-depth exploration in the natural surface. Working with non-toxic textile paint, clay resist, natural dyes, mordants, modifiers and indigo, we will explore images and color on fabrics. Students will work in Botanical Colors’ fully-equipped studio in the funky industrial-creative Georgetown neighborhood. A welcome dinner at a ... Read more
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