January Workshop - Resist Printing with Botanicals

January Guild Workshop – Resist Printing with Botanicals

Sunday, Jan 15  Indian Rocks Beach Art Center 1-4 pm

Make beautiful fabric images on silk with your locally sourced Florida plants, trees or shrubs. In this workshop you will be making 2 silk scarves to learn how plants and dyes make gorgeous tropical prints. This technique can be applied to larger works of art, such as art quilts, wall art or garment construction. What better way to use your local plants and have a lasting piece of wearable art? This class requires some standing and hand strength to complete the projects.The supply list for the workshop includes:

• 2 silk scarves or silk habotai fabric, 8 – 12 mm
• ***scarves or fabric should be 12” in width and no longer than 72”***
• A selection of leaves with interesting shapes such as oaks, maples, sweet gum, ferns.  Look for leaf shapes that are unusual and irregular or interesting.
• Painters drop cloth from Dollar General, .8 mil
• Butcher string or strong string that does not break when pulled tightly
• Scissors to cut string and plastic
• Plastic shoe box or small wash basin.
• Latex exam gloves
• 1 gallon of Drinking Water, or Spring Water.  The cheapest you can find!