Just Silkscreens is just that –Silkscreens! We will exhaust every way to use silkscreen in printing cloth in the time we have. Working in fiber reactive dyes, our prints will leave your work with the same original hand, so that you can use the fabric for apparel or art quilts. We’ll use stencils, paper barriers, …
Read More »Learn how to sculpt organic forms with wool during this two-day, wet felting intensive with fiber artist Mallory Zondag. You will learn a variety of wet felting techniques for creating flowers, leaves, stems, stamens and how to connect all of these elements to form realistic floral forms. We will also cover how to bring needle …
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Explore the possibilities of basketry techniques for sculpture. Using variations on traditional wire basketry, twining, and coiling with soft materials, students will learn multiple weaving techniques to make everything from small baskets to large scale installations. Particular attention will be paid to pattern and line quality in 3D work. Ways to include found objects and …
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Skill Level: Advanced Beginner to Intermediate Dye the color you choose, not the color that chooses you! Explore the unlimited number of hues possible by mixing only pure reds, yellows, and blues of Procion MX fiber-reactive dye. Teams of students will use different sets of primaries that when mixed will yield hundreds of colors in …
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Skill Level: Advanced Beginner to Advanced In this class Vicki will show how she uses multiple photos to design a bold, graphic landscape. She will demonstrate simplifying the images using a tracing technique with clear sheet protectors or tracing paper as well as the drawing app Procreate on the iPad. Then you will design your …
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Materials: Carlile-Kovács Level: All levels welcome Bags are a challenging field of the 3D design and can be complicated in felting therefore this is a project you can learn the most about constructional felt making. The biggest challenge of felted bags is how to add depth to a flat “felted pocket” to make it more …
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Materials: Rose- Supply List.pdf Level: All levels welcome In this 3-day workshop you will learn the many facets of printing with leaves and other botanicals, as well as how to combine these prints with natural dyes to create richly colored art-to-wear scarves, yardage, garments, or wall art. We will be working with protein fibers- wool …
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Materials: No sewing machine needed, Benner- Supply List.pdf Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced Make your marks, brush your strokes, and record them all on fabric. Bold and expressive use of Procion MX dyes is the main goal of this workshop. Sue teaches her layered painterly approach to surface design using direct application, monoprinting, and various …
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Skill Level: Advanced Beginner with wax and dye experience to Professional level *Important Note:* This workshop is about the process and is a quiet and reflective class. Conversation is kept to a minimum so students can focus. Stenciling or stamping wax onto fabric is known around the world and has been famous in Japan for …
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Join Pat Pauly for this five-day workshop where we print large scale fabric throughout the week. With a myriad of printing techniques using fiber reactive dye on fabric, we’ll use large graphics to produce whole cloth works. Silk screen, monoprint, stencil – along with a few more techniques – are used to print large images …
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