Botanical Colors Seattle

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

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.

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.