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Beautiful Silks Workshops presents: Natural Dye Symposium Workshop

Velma Bolyard : Shifu Books: 'In the Ecotone'

Some places still available in first workshop - Sunday 1 July, Monday 2 Tuesday 3 July 2012 3 day course $375 Code NDSVB02

Second workshop SOLD OUT - Wednesday 4 July, Thurday 5th Friday 6th July 2012

Booking Code NDSVB02

Workshop description:


The ecotone, the edge, is the place where we will transform a piece of kozo or lokta by blade, spindle, and pigment into a textile. In this experimental class we will learn what I call North Country shifu, a rustic take on a traditional Japanese clothmaking technique. We will prepare handmade papers for shifu, twist the various papers on spindles and weave sample textiles on our simple looms. We will use several natural dyes to color completed skeins and to brush on papers for later use. Plan to reach and let go, to work intensely and then intuitively, to enjoy the pleasures of handmade kozo and lokta paper, to learn how to color spun paper, and to make a woven paper textile.

For more images link here


Tutor profile:

Velma Bolyard has been making paper and weaving, spinning, and dyeing since the seventies. Initially beginning a career in fiber art, she took a detour through motherhood and "hobby farming", and then became a special education teacher. Throughout that time she maintained a studio called Wake Robin, now a hand paper mill. She has extensive experience in the book arts as well as fiber arts. She has exhibited her weaving, basketry, paper, and book works regionally, nationally, and internationally. Velma's paper has been used by letterpress printers and book artists in both editions and unique works. Her current fiber work is in miniature tapestry and igolochkoy, and her book works are mostly unique artists' books in shifu (spun and woven paper) and vellum, but include a few editioned bookworks. Velma is grounded in historical technique, but is experimental in both her personal work and in teaching. One student said of her: you are a good teacher. You let me make mistakes."

Lists etc will be provided to all students - limited spaces .

Link to more images of Velma's work here

3 day workshop fee is $375.00 CODE NDSVB02 - payable upon booking.

 

If you wish to pay by direct debit and save paypal fees... make your direct debit payment to MARION GORR CLIENT TRUST ACCOUNT, BSB 063-212 (Commonwealth Bank Fitzroy Branch) Account no 1013-1209 and send us a screen dump (splash page) of the receipt to workshops@beautifulsilks.com with your contact details and booking code NDSVB02 or call (03) 9419 7745 to make a credit card payment over the phone.

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