Hand Dyeing Student Work

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 […]

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

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

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.