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Workshops

Leentje enjoys teaching and sharing her ample knowledge. She also likes helping creative minds to reach further. These workshops are both for beginners (if you are interested in technical details) and experienced dyers. Please look in webshop/workshop for more info.

Dyeing (with shibori) April 12, 13 and 14.

We will dye textiles already mordanted with several types of alum and gallnuts. Working on cotton, linen, wool, silk and hemp. The colours used are extracts from madder, weld, genista, cochineal, chestnut, indigo/woad and one more dye to choose together. For example : Chlorofyl, Campechewood, oakwood extract. Something else ? Learning about the best mordant for each fiber ; sometimes there are alternatives. These will result in different colours and different light fastness. There are shibori samples and enough space in the dye pots for eager hands and minds to go in search of that abstract beauty. As we will be overdyeing we produce many shades. Max 7 participants. Minimum 4. 

 

Painting with printing paste's. April 17 and 18.

First we will look at sample cards and fabrics and then we start preparing 6 paste's. From extracts of madder, genista, cochineal, iron/gallnuts, indigo and a discharge/mordant paste that produces a bleaching effect on some fibers and a deepening of the colour on others (wool and sometimes silk). We will make sample fabrics to be shared later on wool, silk, cotton, linen and hemp. After the fabric has been steamed it needs to be washed. The second day you will make your own experiments on fabric of your choosing. 

 

Dyeing(with shibori) October 17, 18 and 19.

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Painting with printing paste's October 22 and 23.

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Foto: courtesy Atelier Fiberfusing.