Art Cloth Eye Candy – Studio Play Time

Over the course of a few weeks, I’ve assembled a group of 13 silk screens with dye drawings. It was time to get to printing all of these out on cloth. Sunday became the day for the 6 hour long printing session.

printing out one of my silk screen dye drawings onto cotton […]

Ready for my Art Cloth Workshop in Telluride

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 […]

A place you’ve got to see to believe

There are many beautiful mountain towns in Colorado, and then there’s Telluride, CO. Perched at 8750 feet above sea level in a box canyon with mountains all around, Telluride has to be one of the most beautiful (and cleanest) places on earth. Spending a week there, teaching an art cloth workshop was heavenly. Words […]

5 Easy Tips for Exploring Fabric Surface Design Techniques

"tribal" art cloth ©2011 Ayn Hanna, hand-dyed cotton fabric with silkscreen print

Early last month I got to attend Judith Traeger’s “Exploring the Surface” workshop which was a program offered through my local Rocky Mountain Creative Quilters’ Guild. Judith is a very well-known, internationally exhibited quilt artist and teacher, and one of the […]