Natural Ecoprinting on SIlk and Wool
About Natural Ecoprinting on SIlk and Wool
Join us for a workshop on creating stunning natural plant designs on silk and wool! In this ecoprinting workshop (also known as botanical printing), you’ll learn how to collect leaves, plants, and flowers to imprint their images directly onto fibers. Students will explore techniques for crafting beautiful, nature-inspired designs and discover how mordants affect protein fibers.
By the end of the session, you’ll take home your own ecoprinted hemmed silk and unhemmed wool scarves, along with the skills to continue ecoprinting using resources from nature. Experience the beauty of this natural and sustainable art form!
The capacity for this class is 16 students.
Materials, Equipment, and Supplies the Student Must Bring to Class
Students should bring:
•An empty one gallon water jug to use as weight (can be filled at class)
•Leaves from their area such as oak, maples, rose, hickory, sumac, blackberry, kudzu and interesting weeds. Fun additional plants (usually store bought) are live eucalyptus and colorful " flat" flowers such as daises. No thick plants. Dry leaves need to hydrate in water about 20 minutes.
•Apron
•Notebook and pen
Materials Fee and Description
Your class registration fee includes materials with a value of $30 consisting of:
$30.00 Covers *1 hemmed silk Habatoi scarf and 1 unhemmed organic wool scarf, all equipment (turkey roasters, dowels, twine, baskets, scissors, paper towels, latex gloves, plastic, mordants}, table coverings, information class summary sheet instructions and mordant mixing.
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Pre-class Homework
Students will need to forage and collect leaves, plants and flowers for their use in the class. See list for what students should bring to class
Age Range
Minimum age requirement for workshop: 16
Skill Level
All Levels
What skills or knowledge do students need to take this workshop?
None
Contact the Teacher
Send a direct message from the teacher's profile page with any questions you might have about the class.
When
6-hour live in-person seminar with break.
Class Location
Boone 3
How It Works
This is an in-person event. Please check the location and date above to ensure it works for you to attend in-person. Register and enroll above. Enrollment is not complete until payment is made on the next page, by credit card or Paypal via our secure platform. Enrolled students will receive an immediate email confirmation of enrollment..
Refund Policy: To cancel an enrollment or request a refund, contact [email protected]. For 30+ days before, we refund 95%. Between 30 and 5 days, receive a 75% refund. No refunds within 5 days of class start date.
M. Theresa Brown
M. Theresa Brown is a long-time professional portrait artist whose art career embraces many areas of the arts. Her years of printmaking and color work led her to explore the fiber arts. Using many similar skills and accumulated knowledge, she evolved as a hand painter and ecoprinter on natural fibers.
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