Color and Dye
COLOR AND DYE CLASSES
31. Yarn Dyeing with Acid Dyes
Instructor: Jessica L’Heureux Fee: $35 + tax Mat Fee: $9
Section A: Tuesday June 4th 2-5 pm
Section B: Friday June 28th 1-4 pm
Love those hand-painted yarns? Learn how easy and fun it is to create your own custom colorway using Jacquard Acid Dyes. Class will cover choosing colors, basic dye preparations, various application methods, over-dyeing and heat setting.
Student supplies: please wear old clothes that you don’t mind making a colorful artistic impression on, ad non-slip shoes. Bring 1-2 skeins of white, cream, light grey or light pastel worsted or Dk weight WOOL or WOOL BLEND yarn (no cotton) and notetaking materials. Students may find a color wheel helpful. Note: Yarn MUST be in skein format. Students with balls of yarn should arrive at the store 30-45 minutes before class to meet the the instructor to re-skein yarn.
Instructor supplies: handouts, gloves, tools and dyes.
32. Silk Painting Without Gutta
Instructor: Marcia Petty Fee: $100 + tax
Mat Fee: 25
Date: Saturday June 22nd 10-5 pm
Experience the wonderful world of painting on silk without using the traditional gutta resist. Based on a method developed and taught by Karen Sistek, painting on sized silk allows on to approach the work in a more direct fashion. The sizing prevents the dye from spreading- with the help of a mixture of sizing, vodka, and alcohol, the dyes can be kept in suspension allowing a longer time to shade and blend. A very exciting development in Silk Painting, the effects appear similar watercolor or traditional painting methods. Silk dyes require steam setting to ensure permanence and color fastness. And, steaming makes the colors even more vibrant.
33. Silk-O-Rama
Instructor: Suzanne Visor Fee: $80 + tax
Date: Saturday July 20th 1-5pm Material Fee: $10
Learn to draw and paint on lustrous silk fabric! Practice color mixing with dyes, develop your own motifs applying design principals and own a wall hanging or scarf of your own creation. This class just might change your life as it did mine. Student supplies: 8″x54″ habatoi/china silk scarf, on hold at Village Wools for class. Students should bring to class: a few sketches that can be placed on an oblong piece of silk (not artist quality- just you!). Wear clothing that won’t matter if dye splashes on, non-slip shoes. Instructor supplies: Silk scarves, paints and a collection of art books for reference.
34.The Art of Shibori
Instructor: Marcia Petty Fee: $100 + tax
Mat. Fee: $25
Date: Saturday July 27th 10-5 pm
“Shibori” is the Japanese word for a variety of ways of embellishing textiles by shaping cloth and securing it before dyeing. The work comes from the very root shibori, “to wring, squeeze, press”. Although shibori is used to designate a particular group of resist-dyed textiles, the word emphasizes the action performed on the cloth by manipulating the fabric. Rather than treating the cloth as a 2-D surface, with shibori it is given a 3-D form by folding, crumpling, stitching, plaiting, or plucking and twisting. Cloth shaped by these methods is secured in a number of ways, such as binding and knotting. It is the pliancy of a textile and its potential for creating a multitude of shape-resisted designs that the Japanese concept of shibori recognizes and explores. The shibori family of techniques includes numerous resist processes practiced throughout the world.
Student Supplies: Wear clothes suitable for dye-work, gloves, note taking materials.
Instructor supplies: fabric, dyes, handout, references, bibliography, and tools-clamps, twine, needle + thread.
35. Breakdown Printing
Instructor: Marcia Petty Fee: $100 + tax
Mat. Fee: $30 + tax
Date: Saturday August 17th 10 – 5 pm with a lunch break
Breakdown printing is a wonderful surface design technique. Many different methods can be employed to put dye or textile paint on the screen to create ever- changing prints with surprising effects as the dye weakens. Flour resist, glue, paper stencils, bubble wrap grids – many things can be used to create a design/texture to screen on the cloth. The possibilities are endless.
Student Supplies: Appropriate dress for dye work, gloves and any additional fabric they want to use as this technique is exciting and they may want to have more on hand than I supply. Note taking materials.
Instructor supplies: Dyes, fabrics, glue, flour, I will loan students the silk screens they’ll need for the class and teach how to make their own.
36. Colour and Design for Fiber
Instructor: Elizabeth Buckley Fee: $65 + tax Mat Fee $18
Dates: Saturdays September 7 & 14th 10-12:30 pm
A two session class exploring how to work with color theory in planning warps, knitted garments, quilting and felt projects, the blending of weft bundles in tapestry. We will examine how color can describe mood and temperature, as well as how colors shift in relationship to each other. Hands-on exercises will include experimenting with the design principles of value, repetition, contrast, line, and color combinations. Come with questions, projects in-process, and a sense of play!
Instructor supplies: black-white value paper, yarn and paper samples for color exercises, strips of illustration/mat board for yarn wraps; black white, gray-tone yarns for yarn gray scale; handouts. Reference books, textile samples for viewing
Student supplies: Paper scissors, glue stick, colored pencils (Crayola, Prismacolor),
Pencil sharpener, yarn needle, examples of work , projects in-process
