Art Cloth: Unique Hand-Printed Fabric is the workshop I’ll be teaching this coming weekend at the Ah Haa School for the Arts in Telluride, CO.
"4 Corners" (detail), Art Cloth (breakdown dye screen printing on cotton fabric) ©Ayn Hanna
This year we’ll be using procion MX dyes and breakdown screen-printing techniques (also known as Deconstructed Screen Printing) to create pieces of art cloth. I’ve been busy making some demo pieces to show my students some examples of what’s possible using this technique.
"Domino" (detail), Art Cloth (breakdown dye screen printing on cotton fabric) ©Ayn Hanna
We are gonna have 3 days of big fun playing with these techniques, which I find are a perfect blend of painting and printing, allowing both enough structure (in process) and flexibilty (in mark-making) to achieve an outcome best described as “planned serendipity”.
"Yellow Map" (detail), Art Cloth, (breakdown dye screen printing on cotton fabric) ©Ayn Hanna
And even better, there is no pressure in this workshop on achieving any “completed” work, as there are so many uses for Art Cloth. The beauty of this technique is the range of possibilities of the outcomes.
The final image could become a wonderful piece of art cloth to be hung on a wall or draped somewhere “as is”, or embellished with some stitching/other fabric pieces and become a finished textile art piece, or used for other “functional” textile pieces….like maybe pillows, or wearables, etc. The possibilities are endless!
"Fawning" (detail), Art Cloth, (breakdown dye screen printing on cotton fabric) ©Ayn Hanna
I see some Hanna-dyed Art Pillows taking shape in these images. What do you see?
oh i wish…………….big loose swooshy skirts and tunics
Ya, would be fun wouldn’t it? And cool idea, I can so see those wearables too!
Hi. The ahhaa link isn’t working. What is the price? Thx!
Hi Heather, the workshop already happened in August 2012 – that’s why the link isn’t working. My next offering of this workshop will likely be in 2014 in Fort Collins.
That’s strange. There is an article in this week’s telluride watch that mentions the class on Art Cloth starting tomorrow. Was there a fiber arts festival this week? They must have printed part of last years article. Bummer.
Heather, that is strange….yes, I believe there was a fiber arts festival in Telluride this past weekend. I’m not scheduled to teach at Ah Haa this summer, but next summer is a possibility – the summer Ah Haa schedule generally gets finalized by early in the calendar year.