• Conjuring Color Blends With Kathy Hattori in New Hampshire!

    Sanborn Mills 7097 Sanborn Rd, Loudon, NH, United States

    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

  • SOLD OUT Arounna Khounnoraj – @bookhou teaches Block Printing with Indigo Overdye

    Botanical Colors Seattle 503 S Michigan St, Ste B, Seattle, WA, United States

    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.

  • Arounna Khounnoraj – @bookhou teaches Clay Resist with Indigo Overdye

    Botanical Colors Seattle 503 S Michigan St, Ste B, Seattle, WA, United States

    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.

  • Sold Out – Arounna Khounnoraj – @bookhou teaches Surface Design Techniques

    Botanical Colors Seattle 503 S Michigan St, Ste B, Seattle, WA, United States

    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

  • Mushroom Forage, Dyes, Pigments, Paints & Inks

    Botanical Colors Seattle 503 S Michigan St, Ste B, Seattle, WA, United States

    Mushroom Forage, Dyes, Pigments, Paints & Inks   SIGN UP HERE: https://botanicalcolors.com/shop/workshops/mushroom-forage-dyes-pigments-paints-inks/ Join well-known mushroom educator/artist, designer, educator and author Julie Beeler and Botanical Colors for Mushroom Forage, Dyes, Pigments, Paints & Inks September 27, 28, 29, 2024 At Botanical Colors Studio 503 S Michigan St, Ste B Seattle WA 98108 We are thrilled to welcome Julie back for another forage workshop, this time in the forested Puget Sound area. Join us for an amazing weekend of celebrating Julie’s new book, enjoying a mushroom-themed meal, foraging for dye mushrooms, and creating in the studio with dye mushrooms! The workshop will open for ... Read more

  • Lake Pigments for Painting with Soy with Natalie Stopka

    Online

    Lake Pigments for Painting with Soy with Natalie Stopka
    Online recorded Zoom workshop 
    Saturday October 26, 2024
    10AM-1PM Pacific, 1PM-4PM Eastern

    Natalie is a remarkable instructor, smart, encouraging, organized and her popular workshops make pigments and paints so accessible.  We are thrilled to have her teach us how to create your own paints using lake pigments and the humble soy bean. Join us for a half-day of guided information as Natalie demonstrates making pigments and then transforms them into beautiful paints suitable for cloth, paper and other applications.

  • Online workshop: Shibori Burst Eco-Print with Kristin Field

    Online

    Shibori Burst Eco-Print with Kristin Field

    We first introduced you to Kristin Field of Field & Gardner  and her incredible work through our social media series Takeover Tuesday. You loved her intricate Eco-printed Shibori circles so much that we decided to offer a workshop with her this fall! Join us for an online workshop where you can watch her demonstrate the techniques that she uses to create unique and beautiful eco-printed shibori.

    Join Kristin  for a one-day online workshop where you will learn to design, stitch, cap, indigo dye, and eco-print with pressed coreopsis flowers to create unique shibori burst designs. Kristin began making these indigo & coreopsis designs in 2021, and this is the first time she will be sharing her techniques in a workshop! 

  • THE ART OF PASTEL with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber

    Botanical Colors Seattle 503 S Michigan St, Ste B, Seattle, WA, United States

    THE ART OF PASTEL with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber   We are so excited to host Brittany Boles for a new one day workshop! December 7th, 2024 10AM to 3PM Botanical Colors 503 S Michigan St, Ste B Seattle WA 98108   Join us Saturday December 7th from 10am-3pm at Botanical Colors Studio for an immersive workshop with Britt Boles on the art of plant to handcrafted pastel. Learn the history of pastel, binder and fixative recipes, and create your own set of plant-based soft pastels with Botanical Colors premium pigments and natural dye lakes. About your teacher: When ... Read more

  • Tannin Rainbow Online workshop with Kathy Hattori

    Online

    Tannin Rainbow Online workshop with Kathy Hattori Online workshop held on Saturday January 18, 2025 10AM-1PM Pacific The workshop will be recorded and available for 120 days after purchase. Learn how to create striking color gradations using our pre-mordanted cotton fabric fat quarters, natural dyes, indigo and a few surprises. Tannins are a bitter and astringent compound found so abundantly in many plants.  In food, they serve as the slight pucker in black coffee and tea, and the “oaky” flavor in aged wines. Tannins are used in medicine and for leather tanning.  For us, they are the natural dyer’s not-so-secret-weapon ... Read more

  • Tannin Grayscale with Cara Marie Piazza

    Online

    Tannin Grayscale Online workshop with Cara Piazza Online workshop held on Saturday January 25, 2025 10AM-1PM Pacific / 1 – 4pm Eastern The workshop will be recorded and available for 120 days after purchase.   Learn how to create moody gray gradations using our pre-mordanted cotton fabric fat quarters, natural dyes, logwood and a few surprises. Tannins are a bitter and astringent compound found so abundantly in many plants.  In food, they serve as the slight pucker in black coffee and tea, and the “oaky” flavor in aged wines. Tannins are used in medicine and for leather tanning.  For us, ... Read more