Katherine Hattori

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  • Online Workshop: Fresh Indigo Five Ways – Blender, Salt, Tataki-Zome and More!

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    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 With Yto Barrada & Cara Piazza

    The Mothership Tangier 312 Route de la Vieille Montagne, Tangier, Morocco

    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. 

  • 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.

  • Lake Pigments for Painting with Soy with Natalie Stopka

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    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.

  • 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 Grayscale with Cara Marie Piazza

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    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

  • COLOR BLENDS USING NATURAL DYES ON SILK – TUCSON HANDWEAVERS & SPINNERS GUILD

    Tucson Hand Weavers Guild TBA, AZ, United States

    COLOR BLENDS USING NATURAL DYES ON SILK DATE: March 22, 23, and 24, 2025 LOCATION: Private home in Oro Valley TIME: 9:30am – 3:30pm COST: Member: $335 Non-member:$360 MATERIALS FEE: $75 includes dyes, mordants, fabrics MAX NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 14 SKILL LEVEL: All   Participants will work with color blends to create a harmonious color symphony using natural dye extracts and indigo. Each group will work in a team and dye a range of shades using concentrated natural dye powders and liquids. We will also add to the color spectrum using indigo. You will be thrilled with the unexpected and ... Read more

  • Season of Blue Workshop Series with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber

    Season of Blue Workshop Series with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber
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    Virtual Event

    Season of Blue Workshop Series with Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber Indigo doula Britt Boles is back with an expanded offering: a three part-series on cultivating, fresh processing techniques, and extracting indigo pigment from Japanese Indigo (Persicaria Tinctoria). Join Britt Boles of Seaspell Fiber, Indigofest, and creator of the global network Indigo Pigment Extraction Methods, for a comprehensive growing season with our dye garden’s favorite blue.  Japanese Indigo is an excellent project for anyone both new and experienced to gardening & naturally dyeing alike.  Be one of the first 25 to sign up and receive a special gift: Courtesy of ... Read more

  • A Nerd’s Guide to Mordanting at Sanborn Mills

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

    A Nerd's Guide to Mordanting at Sanborn Mills 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 can see results and we will build a reference folio for students to ... Read more

  • SOLD OUT – Jogakbo Workshop with Youngmin Lee

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

    Jogakbo Workshop with Youngmin Lee   We are so excited to host the renowned Korean Textile Artist Youngmin Lee May 1st - 4th, 2025 (Thursday-Sunday) 10AM to 4PM Botanical Colors 503 S Michigan St, Ste B Seattle WA 98108 Bojagi are traditional Korean wrapping cloths. They were used to wrap, cover, carry, or store objects in daily life, on special occasions, and in religious rituals. Koreans believe that bojagi can not only wrap an object but can also enclose bok (福, 복, good fortune or happiness). The act of making bojagi also carries wishes for the well-being and happiness of ... Read more