April 4 and 5, 2008 BREAKDOWN PRINTING Stop by Friday (4th) at your convenience to prepare your screens between 3PM-8PM. (shouldn't take more than 60 minutes) so they dry before Saturday (5th) a full day of printing 9AM-4PM.
Here's a new art cloth technique scaled down for quilters and a simple, quick workshop. Bring your doodles, sketches, favorite shapes or patterns by the studio on Friday afternoon/early evening. Instructor will guide you in painting them on silk screen (provided, 6 inch squares) They will dry overnight and be available for printing Saturday. The fun will be how they "breakdown" in unpredictable, accidental or chance rates as you pull dyes through your screens to pattern your own art cloth.
Beginners to advanced welcome, bring a spirit of adventure. Class size limited to 10
Cost: $45 plus a $15 materials fee (3 screens, three yards of cotton and dyes necessary to experiment)
April 11 and 26, 2008 SHIBORI FOR MACHINE STITCHERS: Part I Indigo
Quilters have a unique understanding of their machines, threads, tensions, stitch patterns and lengths AND how to finesse the machine stitching process. This workshop offers a shibori experience with indigo and machine stitching. Indigo is quick and easy. The "what if" questions in shibori experiments are answered nearly immediately in a blue and white contrast. These answers shape further "what if" experimenting....all in a creative, new way of patterning cloth by use of the controlled machine stitch for resist.
Intro: Stop by Friday April 11th, between 3PM-8PM to study Jay's shibori collection including machine stitched resists. (20-30 minutes and you should have the idea) Spend 15 days preparing stitched examples at home, in the peace and serenity of your own space. Then return all day, Saturday 26th with your machines or a shared machine and spend the day dyeing with indigo.
Beginners to advanced welcome, no dye or indigo experience necessary.
Cost: $45 plus $5 materials fee (indigo vat, woad vat) Bring your own fabrics. Over-dyeing is possible on pastel shades, vat prefers well washed.
May 3-4, 2008 OPEN HOUSE, HOT SHOPS ART CENTER, Studio 314, Contemporary Fiber Artists Collective, plus all artists at the Hot Shops participating, Saturday, noon-8PM, Sunday, noon-5PM includes food, entertainment, demonstrations
May 10, 2008 Saturday 9AM - 4PM SHIBORI FOR MACHINE STITCHERS: Part II Procion
See part I Indigo. This workshop day will be about experimenting with machine stitched resists and Procion dyes. Instructor will help you explore all the tricks of manipulating dyes - wet/dry, thickened/unthickened, painted/immersed and other yet to be revealed ways of finessing dye patterning on machine stitched cloth.
Beginners to advanced welcome.
Intro for those not participating in Part I indigo can be arranged.
Cost: $45 plus $10 material fees (dyes, thickeners, brushes, vats)
June 3-8, 2008 SHIBORI SYMPOSIUM at the Textile Center of Minnesota, see www.textilecentermn.org for details. Jay’s seminars will be Sunday (8th) on Kyokechi: clamped carved board resists and Shibori Knitting
July 1-31, 2008 Contemporary Fiber Artists Collective First Annual Invitational Show, Hot Shops Art Center, 1301 Nicholas Street, Omaha, Nebraska see www.HotShopsArtCenter.com for map and details
September 25-28, 2008 4th ANNUAL INDIGO AND NATURAL DYE WORKSHOP, This dye workshop will be held at Flavia’s Place B&B in Mitchell, South Dakota - home and studio of Lelia Guilbert, Surface Design Association rep from South Dakota. Cost of the workshop is $125 per person. Lodging and meals will be $45 per person per night. All meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner and a welcome reception Thursday (September 25) night are included. Flavia’s Place website is www.kentoncompany.com
The workshop will cover all aspects of indigo dyeing with various natural fabrics. Several other natural dyes and extracts will be available. (last year we had 12 different dyes including the indigo vat) If you want to dye yarn please bring your own. Some methods of resist dyeing will also be included. Contact Lelia to register: 605-995-1562
October 31-November 10, 2008 INTERNATIONAL SHIBORI SYMPOSIUM, France details TBA, see www.shibori.org
For further information about these events, please send a message through the contact form.
Other workshops in planning stages include Handpainting Yarns for Knitters, Colors from Nature, Texturing Silk, and Dimensional Felting for Hand Knitters or Weavers
