Up-Coming Fiberart Workshops : 2023-2024
COMING WORKSHOPS
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COMING WORKSHOPS -
The Aya Fiber Studio is pleased to invite regional, national and internationally acclaimed fiber-artists into the studio to give lectures, fiber workshops and critiques for a wide range of fiberart studio practices and techniques. These visits will provide studio students direct interaction with the artist and LIVE hands-on- learning experiences. Our intimate setting and small classes provide students with direct instructor attention.
Coming Workshops are listed by the month and the link for more info and registration is in the button below:
August 2024
INTRO TO SHIBORI AND INDIGO BLUE RIDGE MTN ARTS (GA) August 23, 2024
September 2024
LECTURE/ TRUNK SHOW-FOOTHILLS GUILD (SC) 9/3/2024
INTRO TO SHIBORI AND INDIGO-(NC) Suzanne Connors 9/10/2024
SHIBORI AND INDIGO (OLIVES PORCH) 9/14/2024
October 2024
JOHN C CAMPBELL CRAFT FAIR 10/5-6/2024
STUART STUDIO REOPENS FOR SEASON 10/10/2024
THE THIRD DIMENSION with Betty Busby 10/14-18, 2024
INTRO TO SHIBORI AND INDIGO with Suzanne Connors: 10/22, 2024
November 2024
SELECTIVE DE-GUMMING ON RAW SILK with Suzanne Connors 11/5/2024
DECONSTRUCTING NATURE with Kerr Grabowski 11/11- 11/15/2024
SHIBORI STITCHING AND BINDING: MAKI-AGE AND ORI-NUI with Suzanne Connors 11-19/21, 2024
December 2024
INTRO TO SHIBORI and INDIGO with Suzanne Connors 12/3/2024
KATAZOME- Japanese Paste Resist with Suzanne Connors 12/10-13/2024
INTRO TO ECO-PRINT with Suzanne Connors: 12/17-19/2024
3-DAY BOTANICAL PRINT WORKSHOP with Suzanne Connors: 10/17-19/2024
January 2025
PATTERNING THE PATTERN with Amy Nguyen- January 6-10, 2025
BOTANICAL PRINTING AND STITCHING with Lisa Binkley Jan 13-17, 2025
MARBLING: Eco-Friendly Fabric Printing with Natalie Stopka Jan 21-23, 2025
MAXIMUM RESIST SHIBORI: Willow, White Shadow, and More with Carole Anne Grotrian
February 2025
TRADITIONAL YORUBA ADIRE ELEKO BATIK + TIE DYE with Gasali Adeyemo Feb 4-7, 2024
BINDINGS AND TECHNIQUES FOR ARTIST BOOKS with Claudia Lee Feb 10-14, 2025
WHY NOT JOOMCHI? with Jiyoung Chung Feb 24-28, 2025
March 2025
3-Day Batique Techniques with Muffy Clark Gill March 3-5, 2025
SASHIKO CLASS CORE and ESSENCE + APPLICATION with Atsushi Futatsuya, March 7-9, 2025
MULTI-MEDIA FIBER with Betty Busby March 10-14, 2025
ENCAUSTIC EMBELLISHMENT EXTRAVAGANZA with Lorraine Glessner; March 17-21, 2025
GARDEN PAPERS with Mary Hark March 24-28, 2025
April 2025
RUST FUSION- Rio Wrenn April 9-11, 2025
NUNO FELT IMMERSION with Marjolaine Arsenault April 15-18, 2025
STUART STUDIO CLOSES FOR SEASON: April 25, 2025
JAPAN TEXTILE ADVENTURE- April 28- May 8, 2025
May 2025
EXTENDED JAPAN TRAVEL GROUP- May 9-20, 2025 (for participants of textile adventure)
June 2025- NC
July 2025_NC
2025 BLUE IN THE MOUNTAINS INDIGO AND SHIBORI RETREAT- July 2025
August 2025-NC
September 2025-NC
October 2025
November 2025
December 2025
ADVENTURES IN GELLI PRINTING with KEVIN WOMACK- Dec 4-6, 2025
Click on any link below to learn more or continue scrolling to see upcoming fiberart workshops! You can also click on the greyed out squares in the calendar on the upper right to see what is happening on any day!
Natural Dyeing of the 18th Century, in a Modern Setting: Classical Natural Dyes at your Fingertips
Create stunning colors from plans, inspired by the recipes of the old masters, adjusted to fit a modern dye kitchen.
Day one:
On the first day, you learn about the systems and economics of the 18th-century natural dye industry. Specifically in the South of France, which was the leading economic force of that century.
We learn about the master dyers of the era and their recipe books.
Practical instructions:
Correct cleaning of natural fibers
Water ratios
WOF calculations
Record keeping and building a library.
Practice and test: cleaning the materials you will be using for the rest of the trials.
Color: Learn how to set up an indigo bath
Day two
We will dye base colors of different shades of blue according to 18th-century shade cards.
milky blue
azure blue
Kings blue
You will learn how to dye correctly, and how to maintain your vat for continued dyeing.
You will learn about the mordanting process for wool, and we will mordant part of our fabric for the following steps.
Day three
The yellows
You will learn a classical mordant bath for our wool fabric.
We will create a classical weld dye bath and a buckthorn berry bath and dye our yellow samples.
We will create
Lemon Yellow
Warm Yellow
Vert Gay (cheerful Green)
Vert d’Herbe (herb green)
Day four
Going all out with Madder and Cochineal
Today you will learn how to create vibrant reds with madder
We will create Purples by over-dyeing our blue samples
We will create ORANGE by over-dyeing yellow samples
Madder red
Scarlet red
Golden Cinnamon
Violet
Lila
Day Five
Greys, taupe and more.
Learn how to reuse your dye baths and combine them with mordants to create even more stunning shades.
We will finish our dyeing and collect and cut all the samples to make your sample collection for future reference.