The next best thing to teaching others how to hand-dye fabrics and fibers, is seeing the results of their efforts, and the fabric collections which are being produced during the current session of my Fragments of Nature Workshop are simply beyond beautiful. It’s easy to see the colors of nature reflected in these fabrics, threads …
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It’s been quite a busy month so far with a focus on teaching my new workshop – Fragments of Nature – both online and in a live workshop. We are about half-way through the online class, and have so far learned how to mix dyes to recreate nature colors. It all begins with hand-dyed color …
It’s always a thrill for me to see the work that my students produce during my online classes and workshops, and I particularly love to see the beautiful fabrics and fibers that they create during my hand-dyeing workshops. After 30 years of hand-dyeing I never get tired of seeing the unique color and texture that …
Hand-Dyed Fabrics with Amazing Color and Visual Texture Read More »
Playing with color is one of my favorite things to do, particularly when hand-dyeing. Mixing and blending different colors to create brand new colors is magical, and even after 30 years of hand-dyeing I’m still always excited to see the results. During these last few weeks I’ve been leading a new batch of students through …
This week we finally completed the last lesson of the Assemblage Hand-Dyeing Workshop and what a journey it’s been! During the last 10 weeks we’ve covered the basics of color theory and color mixing, then moved on to experiment with some creative hand-dyeing “assemblage-style” using techniques such as low water immersion, shibori, ice dyeing, microwave …
Some Final Fabric Collections using Assemblage Hand-Dyeing Read More »
We’re now over half-way through the 10-week Assemblage Hand-Dyeing Workshop, and judging by the photos that students are sharing, they are creating some amazingly beautiful fabric collections in all sorts of color combinations. These past few weeks we’ve been exploring microwave dyeing which is quick and easy, and tie dyeing which is so much fun. …
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