Had a fantastic week in Ballarat with Fibre Arts Australia printing with mordants and dyeing with a variety of natural dyes, from fresh plant material, powdered dyes as well as extracts. I had a wonderful group of students who were right on track to learn new ways of creating images and colour combinations by printing with mordants both before and after dyeing with natural dyes. I think we worked out that we had made over 150 colours during the course of the week.....so all the students have built up a wonderful resource for their future forays into natural dyes. Towards the end of the week our group had to make something for the "top table" so we decided to make this fabulous table-runner which we printed with mordants and then dyed in iris leaves.
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| Table runner after printing with various mordants (before dyeing) |
We were all so proud of it and we raised $100 when it sold to one of the other tutors during the live auction.
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| Table runner after dyeing with iris leaves and decoratively stitched by students |
After the workshop I had several enthusiastic emails from several of my class saying they had already started putting their new skills into practice. That is so exciting for me as a teacher - to know that you have not only inspired others with your passion and knowledge but also to create the impetus for independant research and experimentation.
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| The Ballarat Class of 2016 - Awesome and talented ladies!! |
Thank you all so much for a wonderfully calm and productive week!
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