Indigo Vat Building and Resist Printing Workshop
In this 4 week workshop you will learn how to create an Indigo Ferrous vat using the original 1900 recipe.
About Indigo Vat Building and Resist Printing Workshop
You will be taught how to maintain it and you will learn a variety of resist techniques to create some prints on cellulose material (Cotton, linen).
This workshop will take place online on zoom on a weekly basis from the Sunday 21st Januaryat 4pm UK time (2.30 hours). It will be recorded and the recording will be shared with the participants together with a set of instructions to keep.
Over the 4 weeks we will:
learn how to set up a ferrous vat, and how Indigo works. I will show you how to dye with your vat and how to trouble shoot with it.
Learn to select and prepare fabric to dye.
Learn to prepare and use a Soya resist paste to create prints.
Learn how to prepare and use Batik wax in a brushed technique
Learn to neutralise and finish your pieces.
At the end of the workshop you will have :
One new vat technique
A selection of artwork on fabric.
A good understanding about how Indigo works.
The workshop is led by Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw from #Theindigoplot an Award winning dye garden in the Glasgow Botanical garden. She is dye educator who works with Indigo both fresh leaves and pigment. She runs a sustainable studio in Glasgow and both research and teaches Indigo dyeing.
In the summer she grows Indigo and Woad in Glasgow and should you want to be involved in 2024 send her an email request. bettysbeautifullife@gmail.com
Her work can be seen on www.instagram.com/bettysbeautifullife/
This event is suitable for beginners.
I am afraid that all bookings are final, As the video recording will be available in the future for replay I am not able to offer refunds for the bookings.
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