LOCAL Educational opportunities

There is a 25% discount ($200) for Washington participants if registered by August 24th !

Shanna Rose is a Textile Artist with a passion for Botanical Eco-Printing on silk. Using leaves, flowers, and other plants, detailed prints are created on silk, raw silk, wool, or other natural fibers.

Here are just a few of the things you will learn in this workshop:

• Which fabrics to use and why, and how to prepare them for
the process of printing and dyeing
• How to prepare plant dyes from foraged material, garden
grown plants and purchased barks, powders and extracts
• How to determine if a leaf will print, the best time to harvest
different leaves and why, and how to preserve different types of
leaves to use in winter
• How to obtain crisp clear prints with vibrantly colored
backgrounds

In this 3-day workshop you will learn the many facets of printing with leaves and other botanicals, as well as how to combine these prints with natural dyes to create richly colored art-to-wear scarves, yardage, garments, or wall art. We will be working with protein fibers- wool and silk; primarily different types of silk such as charmeuse, raw silk, tussah and eri silk. On the last day we will do a different process to create a piece on cellulose fabric such as cotton, linen, rayon, bamboo.

The use of a variety of natural dyes such as logwood, cutch, black walnut, madder, and marigold will greatly extend the color palette of your piece, and Shanna’s unique process will place your botanical prints beyond any you’ve previously seen. We will use plant dye extracts as well as fresh plant dyes.

By the end of the three days you will have completed 4-6 silk scarves, a raw silk wall hanging, a special piece of your choice, and a t-shirt or cellulose-based fabric.

Instructor Bio: Shanna Rose is a self-taught artist who has always created beauty with plants and flowers, but when she found Botanical Print as the place to channel her creative process she felt she had come home. It combines her skills as an avid gardener, an artist and a nature lover. She grows the flowers and other botanicals used in her work, and has learned much about Botany through the eyes of an Eco-Printer. Collecting leaves while walking through forests, neighborhoods, and parks keeps her connected to the source of her inspiration- the beauty of the natural world.

ON-GOING CLASSES

Northwind Arts (PFA and non-PFA teachers) (click on link for more information)
Pacific Northwest Art School, Coupeville, WA. https://pacificnorthwestartschool.org/
Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN), Bainbridge Island, WA https://bainbridgebarn.org/
Maiwa School of Textiles, Vancouver, BC https://www.schooloftextiles.com/