Textiles: indigo shibori dyeing

All students:
- Prepare an indigo dye bath
- Produce indigo dyed cloth of varied depths through immersion dying
- Add pattern to fabric through stitched resist, folding, clamping and wrapping (shibori)

Students with some experience will also:
- Further explore personal interest and work on a large piece or series.

Basic materials and protective clothing are provided but you may want to add to this by bringing:
- A collection of fabric scraps, odd sizes and shapes ok – in natural fibres, (silk, cotton, wool, linen)
- Needles + threads [various threads undyed please]
- Thin cotton string or strong thread
- Rubber bands
- A collection of markers to attach to your samples in the dyebath so you can recognise them – buttons, beads,
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safety pins, etc
- Your own rubber gloves and / or apron

Please wear old clothes or an overall - it’s messy!

The course will be hands-on, with practical demonstrations and examples to get you thinking imaginatively.
You will start by learning how to make a dye bath and prepare fabric for dying.
There will demonstrations and one to one support in developing samples.
A range of books and samples will be available to inspire and inform your learning and progress. You will be
introduced to the historical and cultural perspective of indigo, and handouts will be available for technical methods.
The use of a sketchbook/notebook to note down methods and references will be encouraged, and any existing
interests can be developed further.