Beautiful Silks Institute of Textile Wisdom

Patricia Black, : Twist & Shape: Dimensional Shibori Workshops in Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth!

Perth: Saturday Sunday Monday 3-4-5th July, confirmed at Trudi Pollard's studio , this location is 2 Otway place Bedfordale West Australia. Bookings via Beautiful Silks. Code PBP

Adelaide: Friday Saturday Sunday July 9th, 10th, 11th Adelaide venue Lizzid Silks Studio, 38 High St Grange SA 5022 workshop booking code PB02

Melbourne: Saturday Sunday & Monday July 17th 18th &19th 2010 Melbourne workshop booking code PB01

Adelaide 3 day workshop - code PB02 July 9th, 10th, 11th (Friday Saturday Sunday) Bookings through Beautiful Silks. Please make the CODE PB02 clear when you book.

Indulge in 3 days of cloth mysticism with Patricia Black.

See link The Poet of Cloth

Three wonderful days - one workshop - 12 people limit.

(2 further workshops are planned - Perth and Adelaide. Register interest in these workshops here)

Cost : $495.00 plus a materials fee of $50 per person which gives you enough materials to complete one large peice and several small peices of cloth.

Patricia Black is a textile practitioner whose career has ranged from design for theatre and dance to teaching her specialized field of dimensional textiles using dyeing techniques whose collective Japanese name is 'shibori'.

Having studied this art with Japanese dyemasters and
designers in Japan in 1993 -Junichi Arai, Hiroyuko Shindo and Kae Hayakawa.
Patricia learnt the ancient techniques of 'Shibori' and adapted them
using commercial dyes on silk and wool in place of traditional indigo to create 3-D forms that are flexible and texturally rich.
Patricia has been workshop leader in many schools and conferences worldwide including the ETN conference in Rovaniemi,Finland (2000)Haslach.Austria (2009), ISS Symposium, Harrogate (2000), HV Skolan,Stockholm and an annual tutor at Fondazione Lisio, Italy.
Featured in the 2005 San Francisco's Fine Art Museum exhibition 'Artwear', Patricia was invited speaker for the ISS conference in Harrogate,England (2001) Tama Art University,Tokyo (2005) and showd her work at Musee Branly at the recent International Shibori Symposium in Paris(2008). She is a member of the World Shibori Network and European Textile Network Texere (textiles in education committee.)
The workshop focuses on adapted forms of resist using acid dyes with an emphasis on silk's ability to retain a 3D memory.The more samples will be manipulated and draped to form wearable sculptures to adorn the body.Experimentation and personal detailing will be the the objectives.

To enrol email: workshops@beautifulsilks.com or call (03) 9419 7745

Tutor Profile: Patricia Black

To enrol email: workshops@beautifulsilks.com or call (03) 9419 7745