Natural Dyeing on the Prairie: Botanical Colors + Scattergood School
This weekend I was in my "happy place," attending a two day natural dye workshop conducted by Kathy Hattori of Botanical Colors and held at Scattergood Friends (Quaker) School…
35 years of textile samples, part 4: non-stitched resists
Resists have always fascinated me. A resist is a substance or a mechanism used to prevent dye or colorant from acting upon a surface. My very first experiments with resist…
35 years of textile samples, part 2: stitched & clamped resists
In the previous post, I described needing a storage container and finding myself immersed in sorting through a career's worth of textile samples and explorations. Here is Part 2 of…
35 years of textile samples, part 3: stitch resist (shibori, tritik)
This is the third in a series of posts revisiting a treasure trove of textile samples made while learning new techniques. In search of a storage box, I found myself…