Beautiful Silks Workshops presents: Natural Dye Symposium 2012

''Nature's Colours in the City"

India Flint:

WORKSHOP Description: Code IFNDS14 Scarf 1st July 2012 doors open at 9.30am for a 10am start, conclude at 4.30pm.

Start your workshop with a finished scarf, that is ready to dye. You can choose which scarf you want to work on, from our range of over 25 types. Wool, silk and cotton are available, and you can advise us in advance or come earlier on the day to make your selection. If you want a 100% silk velvet or knitted silk scarf, these will be available to workshop participants only, as these we will make in house especially for you. India will be using plant materials, please bring some favorites, of your own, and please save and bring your red onion skins, or bring leaves you wish to try. Your scarf will be beautifully coloured, a fun day with new surprises, this workshop will be large, to keep costs accessible, $99.00 per participant plus your scarf.

STATE DATE OF WORKSHOP WHEN PAYING DEPOSIT PLEASE

1 person non-refundable deposit $50.00 AUD 2 persons non-refundable deposit $100.00 AUD 1 person and registration $175.00 AUD 2 persons and registration $350.00 AUD

Insert 30 June OR 1 July

Velvet scarf: 180cm x 30cm, lined with pure silk chiffon, must be ordered in advance, $88.00 each

Knitted silk scarf : 180cm x 114cm tube, must be ordered in advance, $77.00 each

Otherwise link to our website scarf page to see other options.

You may be aquainted with the work of the accomplished India Flint, if not please see her website here.

Complex Cloth is the laying stitching and eco dyeing of different types of cloth, then treating these in the same way to get different colours: You can stitch new and old or both together, to create a wealth of useable beauty from things once useless.

The ecoprint is a water-based printing process used to apply colour to cloth from plants. It uses relatively small quantities of plant material in a recycled dye-bath and requires no adjunct mordants when protein fibres such as silk or wool are used. Dyes from plants are a renewable resource, whereas synthetic dyes derived from petrochemicals or fossil sources such as coal, are not. Plant dye-making links art and science, historically embracing botany and medicine as well as an appreciation of chemistry.

Photo: India Flint

Literally every plant in the world will have some sort of colour to offer the dyer. There are at least as many subtly different hues as there are plant species in the world, and an infinite range of colours and shades to be had

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