Ever wondered how artists use plants to create colorful fabric dyes? Learn from artist Teal Gardner techniques for using Madder (red), Indigo (blue) and marigolds (yellow) to make three different plant-based dye baths. Explore the techniques of folding, clamping, wrapping, and dipping to create unique and artistic designs in your fabric. Teal will guide you through the best way for preparing fabrics for dyeing, from fabric selection, to washing, scouring and post-dyeing treatment that will give your dyed goods the longest life possible and the skills to do this at home.
Leave with four cotton kitchen towels and a silk scarf, plus any items you bring. All materials supplied as part of the workshop fee. Participants welcome to bring in 1-2 small personal items made from natural fiber (cotton, linen, wool, silk) to dye.
Class will take place from 11am-3pm at the Hailey Classroom.
16+, All Levels, Beginners Welcome
About the Artist
Teal Gardner is an artist and educator based in Boise, who has been teaching natural dye workshops for six years. She is an artist devoted to the land, using her processes to make relations with the earth from many angles, with a hope to learn to draw closer and to engage reciprocity. She is the founder of the ongoing project The Ecogeoglyphic Observatory. Read more at tealsgardner.cargo.site and follow her on instagram, @tealsblurrypictures.
