Sturt have just released their Summer School 2015 workshop information and I will be teaching
Natural Dyes and Mordant Printing on Fabric. Places are filling fast so if you are interested now is the time to enrol!. I always have such a good time at the Sturt Summer School - everybody is super friendly, the tutors are the top of their field, the Sturt staff are fantastic and the weather is usually lovely. I seem to attract a great group of students and we all end up having a fun yet productive time. I hope to see some of my students return for another great week of printing and experimenting.
While I was in the UK I went to loads of museums and galleries and one of the most interesting I went to was the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. I am including a few images of some very old block printed textiles which have been done with mordants and natural dyes.
 |
| Indian textile from Indonesia (1400). Block printed cotton with resist and mordant-dyed red. |
 |
| Indian cotton textile traded to Egypt, block printed, painted mordant and resist. |
