Making Hay
With orders to fill and multiple shows on the horizon, it was great to have a week of almost summer-like weather to get the dye pots bubbling, and the steamers steaming. The result: 32 eco-dyed scarves and 17 black patterned scarves are now “in process” in the studio, soon to be finished and sent on their way to stores in CA, DC, MD, and VA.
Meet “Stella” the steamer, actually an industrial steam iron. We spent some quality time together the past couple of weekends steaming the color out of some black silk scarves to reveal the screened patterns.
Since we had multiple dye pots going to make the scarves, I threw a couple of wool fabric bundles in the pots too, one in a madder bath, one in an iron pot with some log wood:
wool, eucalyptus, copper, madder dye bath
2 sided view of the same piece of cloth – wool, eucalyptus, copper, iron/log wood bath
Fall 2015 Eco-Dye Workshop Announcement
These wonderful warm days spent with the dye pots prompted me to finalize my teaching plans for my fall workshop. (With 7 exhibitions scheduled this year, I’ve only planned to teach 1 workshop this fall.) Barbara Gilhooly and I will be teaming up to teach eco-dyeing & printing Oct. 10-11 here at our Hanna-Gilhooly studios in Fort Collins. If you’d like to learn about dyeing and printing with natural plant materials, we would love to have you join us – For details and registration, click here.
