Holiday Dyeing and Fabric Painting - Weekend Workshop
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About this event
Create your own unique dyed, handpainted and printed linen table runner and a set of linen napkins. We will be exploring several simple, but effective techniques to create patterns and textures onto fabric. This is a really fun workshop, where you will be guided how to dye and mix colours and design effective pattern repeats. This would make a wonderful Xmas gift for someone special. Or a great way to express a bit more of what you already love about textiles, to bring into your home.
What to bring: Your ideas and inspiration, a decent scalpel blade if possible (e.g a Xacto knife from Gordon Harris for cutting stencils), old newspaper.
Light refreshments included.
Fee: $300.00
Min / Max 4 students
Two day workshop
Available to purchase from the Studio Shop:
Blank Linen Tea Towels, $9.50 each
Blank Calico Bags, $6.00 each
Textile Inks: P.O.A
Silk Screens: P.O.A
Organiser Smitten Design Workshops
Organiser of Holiday Dyeing and Fabric Painting - Weekend Workshop
Katie has been working with fabric in one way or another all her life. From clothes to interiors to conceptual art, she has always been fascinated by the power of fabric to transform places, spaces and people. Katie works in her studio in West Auckland, where she is inspired by the wild mash-up of urban industrial spaces and the forest clad Waitakere ranges. She loves synthesising these disparate influences into printable motifs.She relishes in the uniqueness of hand printing and exploring its numerous possibilities. She graduated with an M.A in Textile Art from Goldsmiths University of London, in 1995, and prior to this, she studied textiles at Otago Polytechnic in Dunedin. She likes to keep her work simple, spontaneous and contemporary. She loves sharing her knowledge and passion for textiles and has run numerous print workshops for adult and children. www.smittendesign.co.nz