Last year this was a fun few days. the weather was great as were our results. We had plenty of students but not too many to make it crowded. One was a painter, one was a knitter and another interested in fashion and dying whole clothes for clothing. It should be another fun, relaxing weekend. We still have a few spots left if you’d like to take us up on the offer.
Newfoundland Natural Dyes: Creating Colours With Natural Plants with Rosalind Ford
through the English Harbor Arts Centre (registration for course through the EHAC website or phone)
Fee: $150.00
(lichen dyed silk, cotton and wool)
Learn to Create 25 Colours with Local Plants
Saturday and Sunday 10 – 4
Introducing people to the existing possibilities when dying fibres using local natural dyes. Workshop participants will be taken on a walk along the trails surrounding English Harbour and be shown and collect various materials that can be used for making natural dyes.Each participant will create a catalogue of samples using wool, silk and cotton as supports. By the end of the workshop everyone will have at least 25 different colour samples from one local Newfoundland dye. These samples can be used as a point of departure for dyeing fabrics to be used in rug hooking, knitting, quilting, art and fashion.
Rosalind Ford has a B.Sc. in Biology and a diploma from the Textiles Studies Program through the College of the North Atlantic. She has been working with textiles professionally since 2003. She discovered Natural Dyes in 2005, and shortly after, apprenticed under Susan Furneaux in St. John’s, NL. She has incorporated natural dyes into her work ever since. Roz combines her degree in biology and love of the outdoors with her textile studies diploma to create diverse and grounding work that range from children’s soft toys dyed with exotics through to high-end works of art made with Newfoundland natural dyes.
Would it be okay if I used this photo in a blog post at http://californialichens.org/category/blogs/dyeing/ and gave credit to https://rosalindford.wordpress.com?
Hello,
sorry this is a late late reply. You can definately use the picture, if it’s not too late. Life has had me pre-occupied lately.
r