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Beautiful Silks is so excited to announce its headline presentation for 2012 that it will have to take a deep breath!!! Ah!!! That's better. Fanfare, please!!! Demonstration workshop:Sunday 8 July, 2012 There will be no special student rate. India Flint is an Australian Textile Living Treasure, who originally trained as an architect before switching to garment construction and design, and taking a Masters degree in visual arts from UniSA in 2001. Author of two books in the field published by Murdoch, her work now hangs in the West Australian Museum, the National Wool Museum of Auastralia, the Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, as well as State Museums in Germany and Latvia, several regional Galleries in Australia, and most recently has been exhibited in the Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis MN, USA; the Nob Hill Masonic Centre, San Francisco, USA and the Yamaguchi Centre for Arts Media, Japan as well as in Iceland, France, S.Korea, Romania and New Zealand.
Workshop description:
Day Two- you've made it, now see how to dye it naturally.
Every plant gives some kind of colour, depending on how it is processed. This lecture and demonstration will embrace a number of methods for colour extraction as well as protocols for plant collection and plant identification. You will see different methods for how your subtraction-subcut garment could be dyed, using typical dye sources found in the city... including florist waste and kitchen discards, windfallen leaves from streets, parks and gardens. This lecture and demonstration will embrace a number of methods for colour extraction as well as protocols for plant collection and plant identification. You will see different methods that could be employed in the dyeing of your subcut garment, using typical dye sources found in the city... including florist waste, kitchen discards and windfallen leaves gathered from streets, parks and gardens. Using simple bundle dyeing techniques India will demonstrate how to harness the effects of scrap metals, different waters and other easily sourced ingredients to influence dye outcomes as well as discussing a range of methods for plant dye extraction and application. Students will then have the opportunity to try their own dyeing using small bundles. Please do not hope to dye your freshly made sub-cut garment in class - this is best done at home or in your own studio, after some practice where time can be your friend and you have control over the contents of the dyepot. Suitable for those with some experience of studying or working in fashion design related fields, medium levels and onward.
India Flint is a peripatetic specialist in bio-regional ecologically sustainable plant dyes.
Suitable for those with some experience of studying or working in fashion design related fields, medium levels and onward. More about subtraction cutting here Read more about India Flint here More about where Subtraction cutting is taught here Press articles here Arrive for our introduction at 9.30. Bring your lunch - or buy it at one of the many local cafes- we provide complimentary refreshments including a range of healthy teas. Numbers are rare as hen's teeth and as far as we can predict, this collaboration is never to be repeated in Australia. Register for the Natural Dye Symposium in order to attend the networking night as well.
Julian Roberts Fabric preparation guide - Students need: Each student will need TWO fabrics each 3meters long x 100cm wide (minimum) any type/weight/kind, with threads to match. These fabrics need to be prepared for the workshop in advance. Please download the instructions here you will be making a tube out of these 2 contrasting fabrics. Cats are non essential but this may aid your understanding of the pdf And here's some pics from Julian on how he enjoys making the basic ready for a subtraction cutting workshop - note the fabrics do not have to be the same width:
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