Blue River Studio, PO Box 529, Alpine, AZ 85920, 928-339-4426
www.artistsregister.com/artists/AZ104
Title: "Harmonious Hues: Create a Color Palette With Natural Dyes"
Place: Don & Jane Hoffman's Blue River Wilderness Retreat directions at www.blueriverretreat.com
Date: August 14, 15, and 16,2009
Skill Level: Beginning and Intermediate
Description: This 3 day comprehensive workshop shows you how to create a rich palette of beautiful, lightfast and washfast color from natural dyes. We will be using native, cultivated, and imported dye material including plants from Jane's dye garden. She will share her knowledge and methods for producing many shades of color from each dye-pot. You will learn to prepare the dye, to mordant and dye protein yarn, and to experiment with color by using post-mordant baths, exhaust baths and over-dyeing.
What participants will take away from the class:
§ skill and confidence in producing color on protein fiber with a variety of values and range of intensity from natural dyes
§ mini-skeins of dyed fiber in a variety of hues and shades
§ skill to safely dye protein fiber with natural dyes
§ recipes for using a variety of natural dye material
§ folder with instructional handouts
§ record cards with attached yarn samples from each dye
§ bibliography and resources
Instruction fee: $300 (covers instruction for three 8 hour days)
Materials fee: $25 (includes yarn, dyes, mordants, fuel, & handouts)
Accommodations: available in Alpine, Arizona, National Forest campgrounds,
and at Jane and Don's Blue River Wilderness Retreat: www.blueriverretreat.com
View Jane's Bio at: www.artistsregister.com/artists/AZ104
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