Colorful tie-dyed fabrics hang on clotheslines across a green lawn in front of a calm pond.

Harvest Preserve Foundation Inc

LXCL:This price does not cover the full cost of the class, but invites you to attend as a supported community member.

Supported

LXCL:This price covers the cost of the class, ensuring supplies are paid for and educators are reimbursed for their time.

Supporting

LXCL:This price covers the cost of the class (supplies and educator time) and supports others in being able to attend the class.

Supportive

You are warmly invited to our hands-on natural dye and sun print workshop. Together we will spend the day learning how to transform natural dyes and objects into stunning works of art. You will learn the essentials of fiber preparation (scouring and mordanting), explore textile design techniques like tie-dye and traditional Japanese shibori and work directly with onion, walnut, and indigo dye pots. &nbsp; You will go home with six total dyed pieces and a few cyanotype sun prints! We will provide the dyeing textiles for the workshop, but each participant can bring (freshly washed, please) 1-2 tee-shirt sized or smaller pieces to use in the indigo pot. Bonus Sun Printing: While our pots simmer for about an hour, we will get to play with cyanotypes and natural materials so you can capture the magic of the sun on paper! Feel free to bring any of your own dried plant material for experimentation. &nbsp; You&rsquo;ll leave the workshop with your beautiful handmade textiles, unique sun prints, and a guide detailing everything we learned so you can keep discovering at home. Come with an open mind, clothes you don&#39;t mind getting messy, and a love for creating. Space is limited, so save your spot today!

Hi <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip" fr-original-style="" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 196); overflow-wrap: anywhere; user-select: none; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255); border-radius: 4px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 8px; font-size: 11px; display: inline-block; box-sizing: inherit;">First name,<span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'EB Garamond',serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent;" style='font-size: 12pt; font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;'>Thank you for signing up for our natural dye workshop! As you know, we will be using indigo, walnut, and onion skin dyes. During our downtime while the fibers are in the dyebath, we will also have the opportunity to work with cyanotypes (also called sun prints, or anthrotypes). It should be a fun afternoon full of creativity! <span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'EB Garamond',serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent;" style='font-size: 12pt; font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;'>Natural dyes are all unique and interesting, and each have different requirements and expected outcomes. Not all fibers are the same, and each dye reacts with fibers differently. There are three main groups of fibers: protein -based (these come from animals, as in wool or silk), cellulose-based (these come from plants, as in cotton or linen), and synthetic (polyester, etc). These fibers all have different considerations, pros, and cons, depending on what you want your finished product to be used for or look like.&nbsp; <span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'EB Garamond',serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent;" style='font-size: 12pt; font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;'>For this workshop, you will leave with 6 pieces of dyed textile. We will be providing 6 pieces of 100% cotton for you to use.&nbsp;&nbsp;All of the pieces will be scoured (a process by which the fiber is cleansed of dirt, waxes, and other things that might inhibit the dyeing process), and two will be mordanted with alum. The mordanted fibers will be used for the onion dye. We will be covering the scouring and mordanting process at the workshop, but will not actually go through the actions as each process takes about an hour to do.<span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'EB Garamond',serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent;" id="isPasted" style='font-size: 12pt; font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;'>Unfortunately due to many considerations, including adequate space in the dye vat, we only be able to accommodate 2 t shirt sized or smaller pieces of textiles from participants for our indigo vat only.&nbsp; <span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'EB Garamond',serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent;" style='font-size: 12pt; font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;'>We will also be learning about different ways to design your textile using &ldquo;resists&rdquo;. You are probably familiar with tie dye, which is a form of mechanical resist. Other forms you may have heard of are batik (a wax resist) or shibori, which is also a form of mechanical resist. We will provide materials like wood blocks, clips, rubber bands, needle and thread, etc, for you to use to create a design if you wish. You are also welcome to simply dye your textile with no design, if you are planning to use it in another craft. We will have time to prepare our textiles during the workshop, but if this is something you are excited about and want to do a more advanced version of, we encourage you to do some research beforehand!&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.mfa.org/programs/community-programs/art-making-at-home/shibori" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'EB Garamond',serif; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent;" style='font-size: 12pt; font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;'>The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has a great tutorial of three traditional shibori techniques</a><span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'EB Garamond',serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent;" style='font-size: 12pt; font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;'>, to get you started! There are many more to discover, including in books at the Iowa City Public Library.&nbsp;<span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'EB Garamond',serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent;" style='font-size: 12pt; font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;'>We are so excited for the opportunity to have fun and create art with all of you! Please reach out with any questions you have beforehand. See you soon!<span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'EB Garamond',serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent;" style='font-size: 12pt; font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;'>All best,<span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'EB Garamond',serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent;" style='font-size: 12pt; font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;'>Annie and Ellenanne@harvestpreserve.org

You are warmly invited to our hands-on natural dye and sun print workshop. Together we will spend the day learning how to transform natural dyes and objects into stunning works of art. You will learn the essentials of fiber preparation (scouring and mordanting), explore textile design techniques like tie-dye and traditional Japanese shibori and work directly with onion, walnut, and indigo dye pots.   You will go home with six total dyed pieces and a few cyanotype sun prints! We will provide the dyeing textiles for the workshop, but each participant can bring (freshly washed, please) 1-2 tee-shirt sized or smaller pieces to use in the indigo pot. Bonus Sun Printing: While our pots simmer for about an hour, we will get to play with cyanotypes and natural materials so you can capture the magic of the sun on paper! Feel free to bring any of your own dried plant material for experimentation.   You’ll leave the workshop with your beautiful handmade textiles, unique sun prints, and a guide detailing everything we learned so you can keep discovering at home. Come with an open mind, clothes you don't mind getting messy, and a love for creating. Space is limited, so save your spot today!

Harvest Preserve Foundation Inc

Natural Dye Workshop

1645 N Scott Blvd

Supported

$30

Supporting

$40

Supportive

$50