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Interaction! Shibori Indigo Over Color with Carol Anne Grotrian
Experience the excitement of dyeing indigo patterns over color. Results can range from dramatic to subtle, with a bonus when the interaction of indigo and fiber-reactive dyes creates interesting haloes of color. The class will include instructions on mixing fiber-reactive colors and using an indigo vat and various Shibori techniques. There will be lots of time to create beautiful, unique fabrics as students team up to create solid colors that everyone can overdye in indigo shibori patterns.
While it is NOT required, students are encouraged to come up with a project in mind, such as a wall hanging, quilt, garment, or other textile.
No experience is necessary; experienced dyers are welcome.
PATTERNING THE PATTERNS with Amy Nguyen-
PATTERNING THE PATTERN
Art may be considered man-made order or structure, while craft contains the accumulation of technical skill in daily practice. Both are necessary for the creative exploration of pattern and form.
Understanding the elements and principles of art through playful technical exercises in surface design and stitching will allow for creative freedom in making textiles for the body or home. We will explore surface design and structural techniques with brush, dye, paper, cloth, scissors, needle, and thread. Journals encouraged.
We will utilize natural fibers and both man-made and natural dyes to resist dyeing and printing. Honing our visual language and creating a textile pattern will be possible through further experimentation of elements such as line, shape, color, value, and texture and exploring size, scale, repetition, rhythm, and balance. We may further develop our textile with a historic pattern shape in mind, such as the beautiful kimono. A variety of seam construction and finishing techniques will be demonstrated.
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COLOR AND LAYERING IN SHIBORI with Doshi-
Shaped-resist dyeing is a textile art that is thousands of years old. In Japan it’s known as Shibori, in other cultures by a variety of names—Plangi, Bandhani, Adire,Tie-dye. While applying pressure to shaped fabrics before and during dyeing, we can create exquisite patterns of infinite variety on textiles. Samples from all over the world provide infinite approaches to practice several resist techniques: stitching, knotting, pole-wrapping, clamping and rope wrapping. Through using folds, tape, and capping to create compound pattern and through layering these techniques we will produce complex designs. We will explore and study color—inspiration, choosing, and mixing—with acid dyes on a variety of silk fabrics. Building layers of rich color through processes such as pour dyeing, vat dyeing, painting, and discharge increasing the complexity of imagery and patterning.
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