Workshop:
We will use flowers, leaves, roots, tree shavings, and even food waste to create a vibrant rainbow of color on fabric. We will make fabric samples with different textiles and you will dye your own silk scarf to take home and wear. You will learn how to prepare fabric for dyeing, which textiles work best, how to create a dye vat, and different tie-dye techniques to achieve various designs.
Natural dyes are a beautiful lens through which to explore our relationship to the clothing we wear every day and our relationship to the natural world. As we relax and create vibrant vats of color from local flowers and leaves, we can simultaneously peer more deeply into the conventional fashion system we purchase from without question. There will be a brief discussion about chemical dyes and the global fashion system.
Teaching Artist: Susanna Taylor, @flower.dye
Susanna is a mother, designer, artist, gardener, herbalist and lover of the earth residing in Kingston, NY. At the root of every endeavor is her desire to connect humanity, and herself, back to the earth. Her company Flower Dye is the culmination of many years of working in fashion and learning about natural dyes, including learning from local basket weavers in the Amazon jungle how colors are made with native plants, studying natural color in Oaxaca, Mexico with Zapotec rug weavers, studying fashion design in Paris, working in the design world in NYC and SF.
She is currently a full time mom of a toddler and running Flower Dye on the side, teaching local workshops, growing medicine and plant dyes in her garden and apprenticing in programs for plant medicine and earth magic.
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