Earth Pigments & Natural Dyes

$155.00

Saturday September 27
Saturday October 25
Saturday November 15
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Instructors: Gitte Hansen & Diana Fox-Revett

Materials Fee: $25 (paid directly to the Instructors)
Students: 12

Spend the day with studio members, Diana and Gitte, discovering the rich beauty of earth pigments and plant dye colour palettes. Using our studio collection of small screens you will be taught to screen print patterns and textures with earth pigments on small cloth bags.

The afternoon will be spent embroidering, mending, stitching, and embellishing your prints with a selection of wool, silk, cotton, and linen threads that have been naturally dyed with a variety plants to create a beautiful collection of colour and pattern.

This workshop is part of the Sustainable Textiles Series we are developing for 2025-2026 with support from the Ontario Arts Council.

Date:

Saturday September 27
Saturday October 25
Saturday November 15
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Instructors: Gitte Hansen & Diana Fox-Revett

Materials Fee: $25 (paid directly to the Instructors)
Students: 12

Spend the day with studio members, Diana and Gitte, discovering the rich beauty of earth pigments and plant dye colour palettes. Using our studio collection of small screens you will be taught to screen print patterns and textures with earth pigments on small cloth bags.

The afternoon will be spent embroidering, mending, stitching, and embellishing your prints with a selection of wool, silk, cotton, and linen threads that have been naturally dyed with a variety plants to create a beautiful collection of colour and pattern.

This workshop is part of the Sustainable Textiles Series we are developing for 2025-2026 with support from the Ontario Arts Council.

Full time studio members, Diana Fox Revett and Gitte Hansen both work intuitively with colour, stitch, print and pattern in their own work. Please view the studio website for more member details.