SPRING SALE! 50% Off The Cloth at Hand - Cultivating meaning with cloth. Online natural dye workshop using cloth and plants you can find nearby.
Make ink used in the Age of Sail at the Columbia River Maritime Museum
Making paints and inks from natural materials you can grow or forage.
The 5th annual gathering to celebrate seed to cloth indigo! Like the true blue art camp next to the sea we all dream of.
Using multiple dye baths to create multicolored silk
Applying natural dyes to book arts materials: bookcloth, linen thread, inks, and decorative papers
Natural dyeing linen for bookbinding
One day Indigo Workshop using moon phase clamps for patterning.
One day fun class with natural Indigo. You know you want to.
Two day innovative natural dye workshop with Iris Sullivan Daire - Explore the colors and designs of the ancestors.
IndigoFest 2023 - like summer camp for the blue obsessed.
Three Day workshop exploring Polychromatic cloth using natural dyes.
Full spectrum natural dyes. In this three day workshop students will explore making multicolored cloth.
IndigoFest Retreat ‘22!!! In person event, happening this year at the Sou’Wester in Seaview Washington. Come Join us!
Creating pattern on cloth
Learn to create and maintain a natural Indigo Vat.
Exploring the full spectrum using historic dyes. Pure Reds, Blues & Yellows combining to create a full rainbow on cloth.
Update 2/2/22: SOLD OUT with WAIT LIST
Indigo Dyed Bookcloth & endpapers
Update 2/2/22: SOLD OUT with WAIT LIST
Using natural earth and plant based pigments to create paste papers.
Make a Rainbow with Natural Dyes!
Learn to make paste paper, so you can make your books and cards even more lovely.
Creating pattern on cloth
In this workshop we will explore and document the dye and ink making potential of plants native to Cascade Head in our naturalist journals.
In this workshop we will explore and document the dye and ink making potential of plants native to Cascade Head in our naturalist journals.
Using storm tossed branches and Lichen to dye silk.
Winter 2020 Workshop Series Sou’Wester
Real Red, True Blue & Fast Yellows: Using Ancient Natural Dyes to Create Lasting Beauty with instructor Iris Sullivan Daire
11am-3pm class each day: Fri, Sat, Sun Jan 17, 18, 19
(optional open studio work time 4-6pm Friday and Saturday)
Indigo, Madder, and Weld – the names are an incantation for the trinity of natural color in the ancient world of Europe and the Near East. Meanwhile in the Americas, they created amazing textiles and painting manuscripts with Indigo, Cochineal and Marigolds starting over 6,000 years ago.
In this three day immersion workshop we will delve into the potential of these 5 nature based dyes to create pure and long lasting colors. Each day will focus on one of the three primaries. Sourcing directly from the raw materials, we will create vibrant hues on cloth and paper.
This class will provide a strong foundation for working with natural dyes, including the science that makes it all work, how to best prepare fibers, and growing dye plants.
The students will work together creating a full rainbow of dyed cloth samples, and experience the alchemy of making pigment lakes that can be turned into inks and paint. Each student will take home a detailed instruction booklet, a rainbow cloth, and the dye portfolio they create for future reference.
(An optional small final project can be completed during the open studio hours outside of class.)
Friday: Royal Reds- Madder Root & Cochineal Bugs
Dye Session, and making a Madder Lake
Saturday: The Sky and Sea – Indigo Blues
Dye session, and Mayan Blue pigment
Sunday: Yellow like the Sun- Pure Weld & Sacred Marigolds
Dye session and Weld Lake
COST: $135 plus a $100 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.)
BRING: Apron or studio work clothes, notebook, scissors. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Hot coffee and tea provided. Optional items: a dip pen or personal paint brushes, up to 8 ounces of wool yarn made into 1 ounce skeins, or 1 yard of prewashed natural fiber fabric.
Children 10 and up with a high interest in the topic are welcome when signed up with an accompaning adult. 12 students max.
RSVP: via souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542 between 9am-9pm
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
Learn how to create and maintain a natural indigo vat to create true blue on cloth.
Learn the basics of indigo dyeing & create a patterned Blue bandana!
Using concentrated Natural Dyes to paint on cloth. What could be better? Join me at the Sou’Wester for this one day class.
Dyeing the Red Tent - Women’s New Moon Craft Retreat
Join me for a lovely day at Portland Nursery learning how to reserve your garden on cloth.
