"Greenest" Indigo & Basic Shibori Workshop (Nov 13, CA)

The 'Greenest' Indigo & Basic Shibori
with "Sustainable Natural Dyes” DVD launch

Short, hands-on workshop with Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, co-author and author of 2 definitive publications on Japanese and Contemporary textiles. View demonstrations of how to set up an indigo dye bath with totally organic elements commonly found, safely and inexpensively. Learn simple shibori techniques to use with natural indigo, a perfect combination for achieving charming blue and white patterns. Students will dye their own bandana scarf, using a sustainable vat.

This workshop is based on sustainable, natural dyeing methods of Michel Garcia as revealed in his new DVD, “Natural Dye Workshop by Michel Garcia: Colors of Provence Using Sustainable Methods," produced by Yoshiko I. Wada, founder of Slow Fiber Studios. www.yoshikowada.com

Sunday, Nov. 13, 10am to 12pm
$25
Beginners or novices welcome

Class size limited, please enroll early to ensure your spot.
Call Dharma Trading Store 415-456-1211

8ISS Workshop Registration Opens 26 Sept 9am PST

Workshop Registration for the 8ISS will open 9am PST on Sept 26, Monday.

Some really amazing instructors so be sure to mark your calendars. Class size is limited, first come first reserved. Registration is online here

Workshops with AnaLisa Hedstrom (Oct '11, Netherlands)

Announcing TWO shibori workshops with Ana Lisa Hedstrom this October at STUDIO ZIJDELINGS in Tilburg, Netherlands.

These workshops - one on ARASHI / ITAJIME / PIECING / QUILTING and another focusing on ARASHI / STITCH RESIST/ CLAMP RESIST are related to ECO Vision – the 2nd Surface Design Association (SDA) conference for the European membership. (October 18-28, 2011 in Tilburg).

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Sue Cavanaugh, Zanesville Museum of Art, OH (thru July 14)

Some news from fellow textile friends:

Sue Cavanaugh recently received the Lynn Borgman Goodwin Award for Surface Design at Quilt National ’11 for Ori-Kume #20. Her largest (164” x 94”) whole cloth stitch resist shibori piece, Ori-Kume # 22, is on exhibit at the Zanesville Museum of Art, Zanesville, Ohio, through July 14, 2011. www.suecavanaughart.com

Congrats, Sue!

If you're interested in studying shibori with Sue, sign up for her workshop at Art Quilt Tahoe, November 6-11, Lake Tahoe, California. More information and registration may be found at www.artquilttahoe.com.

"Bojagi and Beyond" coming to Bay Area, works by Barbara Shapiro (June-Sep, San Francisco)

"Bojagi and Beyond," a traveling exhibition curated by Chunghie Lee that celebrates the traditional Korean wrapping cloth, will be coming to the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco this June. Local Bay Area artist Barbara Shapiro will be featured in the show with woven work and also indigo dyed wrapped baskets.
www.barbara-shapiro.com

Bojagi and Beyond (working title)

June 16--September 18, 2011

Museum of Craft and Folk Art

51 Yerba Buena Lane

San Francisco, CA 94103

Organized by internationally recognized artist, teacher, and writer, Chunghie Lee, who has studied traditional Korean wrapping cloth extensively, this exhibition is accompanied by a rich public program to include an international symposium, a workshop, a gallery tour, and numerous educational activities.

Bojagi (Bo-Jah-ki) were once used in formal ceremonies and daily activities in Korea. Similar to American patchwork, traditional Bojagi was made from simple pieced cloths or papers, which were elaborately embroidered together. Although this folkloric custom continues in the country, now the craft of Bojagi has had a great influence on contemporary artists from Korea and around the world. Bojagi and Beyond brings together contemporary artists from Korea, and ten other countries that are inspired by this Korean folk art. Unlike the traditional form, contemporary Bojagi varies in medium, size, and functions to create a new meaning that transcends borders. Bojagi and Beyond explores both traditional Bojagi, and its multiple reinterpretations in contemporary art.

More events where you can catch Barbara Shapiro:

July 16 & 17, 2011 "Greener Indigo" 2-day workshop with Barbara
Walnut Creek http://www.walnut-creek.org/cae/

July & August, 2011 "Greener Indigo" 4-week Saturday Studio Class with Barbara

San Francisco at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, SF State University

www.creativearts.sfsu.edu/olli

Be sure to read Barbara's article on Columbian textile artist Olga De Amaral featured in the current Spring 2011 issue of Fiberarts Magazine

Workshop: baandhani & leheria with kamaldeep kaur (May 2011, netherlands)

Baandhani & Leheriya:
reviving traditional Indian resist dyeing techniques

3-day workshop with Kameldeep Kaur (India)

- 19, 20, 21 May 2011 -

studio zijdelings

netherlands

India has been known since antiquity for amazing handcrafted textile techniques. Resist dyed and printed textiles have long been a popular Indian export with Gujarat and Madras serving as two important ports and producing centres for Dutch and British companies.

KAMALDEEP KAUR will instruct a 3-day workshop on the age-old techniques and patterns of baandhani and leheriya using natural dyes, such as madder, daru haldi, and lac. Kamaldeep is a noted researcher from India who has been involved in the revival of several traditional techniques as well as the continuation of existing crafts through design consultancy and product development.

Day 1. The course begins with the story of baandhani and leheriya: a brief introduction with images of process, wearers, makers, surroundings, and traditional and contemporary products. Next is instruction in leheriya on finer silk fabric, which we will prepare and soak overnight for you. Once tied, the samples can be dyed with madder the very same day. You will be able to make several different samples. Some of the samples can be opened, then re-tied and re-dyed the next day for two colour effects.

Day 2. Morning begins with a presentation on natural dyes, followed by preparing daru haldi. We continue with baandhani tying and dye at the end of the day.

Day 3. The final day is devoted to lac dyeing. Morning starts with tying, then working in groups near the dye bath to talk about how to develop it. Samples tied today can be full scarves rather than smaller swatches. We may do two different lac dye baths (time permitting): one with tamarind and one with vinegar to show the difference in brightness of colour. We may also use different mordants to yield different shades.

This class will be in English. Coffee / tea & lunch will be provided.

DATES: 19,20,21 May 2011, 10am-5pm

COURSE FEE: € 300,00 excluding materials. There will be an additional lab fee for natural dyes and Indian silk

LOCATION: Studio Zijdelings Tilburg - The Netherlands

INSTRUCTOR: Kamaldeep Kaur, India

CONTACT: Karina van Vught www.zijdelings.com

Recap: Yoshiko's NZ teaching tour

Wow, New Zealand has a lot going on!

Yoshiko recently returned from a 1.5month teaching tour through Australia and New Zealand where she was able to reunite with many longtime textile friends and had opportunities to meet new ones. Thanks to everyone for creating a wonderful teaching itinerary and setting up such fulfilling social events.

Special thanks to Deb Donnelly for her coordination efforts in NZ and for sharing these great photos and recaps. Check out the full NZ set on flickr


Meisen Kimono Art Moderne show at Expressions Gallery
18 Sept - 18 October 2010
Curated by Yoshiko, mounted by Rebecca Pubben and Expressions Gallery

The advertised floor talk on 30 September drew in a capacity audience at Vectra Gallery to hear a detailed description of works, its provenance and ways to identify this particular design movement in silk materials and techniques not always apparent on first glance. Yoshiko fully explained the rise of a more liberated Japanese consumer with lifestyles never before experienced in Japan. Meisen were popular just prior to the decreased supply of kimono post WW 2 up to late 1950s when western clothing became more widely accepted for workers, schools, manufacturers and general consumers alike. The Meisen Kimono Art Moderne exhibition was sponsored by Whitireia NZ and its response drawn from local artisans in possum merino felt, dyes on scarves, buttons and netsuke carvings including Owen Mapp, Hanne Eriksen Mapp, Clare Smith, Deb Donnelly, Rosemary Mortimer and Barry Young who attended the floortalk. (recap by Deb Donnelly)



Visit to Stansborough Textile Weaving Mill

Famous for their textile designs for films; Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Narnia chronicles, owners Cheryl and Barry Eldridge produce Stansborough fleece of unique lustre and high tensile strength on their family sheep farm in Wairarapa near Wellington. Specially woven lengths of naturally coloured material from Stansborough sheep were supplied to students enrolled on the New Material Transformation workshop at Whitireia Polytechnic NZ from 27 Sept - 1 Oct.
The results of the cloth explorations and Yoshiko's rigorous conceptual and technical teaching is being documented by textiles tutor Deb Donnelly for future classes and industry design developments. A deeper understanding of the cloth's potential will enable NZ designers to carry on producing unique visions of this NZ icon. (recap by Deb Donnelly)


Boro Workshop
Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology

intersections5: Colors_Concepts_Contours (13 Oct-Dec, San Francisco)

Lucy Matzger, "Bat Caf", used coffee filters

fiber/DIMENSIONS presents:
intersections 5 :
Colors_Concepts_Contours
Oct 13 - Dec 19
Presidio of San Francisco Officers' Club
50 Moraga Ave

*Opening Reception 17 Oct @1p*
FREE demos offered (see schedule below)
www.fiberdimensions.com

fiber/DIMENSIONS is a Bay Area art organization that has achieved international recognition. They are celebrating twenty years as a very effective and supportive arts collaborative. Their fifth biennial group show, Intersections 5, will represent over 35 of their amazing artists who bring a diversity of disciplines to their work from weaving, felting, quilting, and paper making to painting, woodworking, printing, and welding. Though many of their artists mix mediums and materials into forms that transcend definition, it is the vitality and potential of fiber that connects the group in the unique fiber/DIMENSIONS collaborative.

FREE demos & lectures
Friday @ 1:30 to 2:30, beginning October 29th. Venue: Presidio Officer’s Club. See website for details

October 29 Regula Allenspach Weill – Gift Wrapping
November 5 Allegra Burke – Prodded Rag Rugs
November 12 Emily Dvorin – Coiled Basketry
November 19 Lucy Matzger – Coffee Filter Collage
December 3 Jeanette Carr – Machine Made Lace
December 10 Melissa Woodburn – Pine Needle Baskets

Yoshiko in Australia and NZ (Aug-Sept)

Check out Yoshiko's long line up lectures, seminars, and workshops in Australia and New Zealand this August and September. Most of these engagements are open to the public. Some of the workshops are sold out but a few still have room. If you're a part of our OZ/NZ community, stop by and say hi! Yoshiko's Calendar here

Enjoy the last week of July everybody! It's lousy, grey weather over here in the San Francisco/East Bay area (ok, just San Francisco, really). Hoping to see summer sun as the days move into August and September. And to those heading to SPIN in Santa Fe, let us know how it goes. We'll report about it here on the blog for others to experience.

Yoshiko at SPIN Conference (8/1-6, Santa Fe)

Yoshiko will be teaching & lecturing this August at SPIN in Santa Fe, NM. See her schedule below. Registration is now open so hurry and sign up!

Silk Painters International Festival
August 1-6 2010
Santa Fe, NM - USA
www.silkinsantafe.com

Workshop: "Exploring Silk and Textures" [AUG 3-4 @ 9-4p]
Lecture: "The Meisen Kimono: Kitsch to Art Moderne " [AUG 5 @ 9a]
To learn more about the workshop, visit Yoshiko's Calendar

Classes: Summer Shibori w/ Ana Lisa Hedstrom

Looking forward to summer? Wondering what you're going to do? How about exercising your imagination and expanding your technical vocabulary by enrolling in one of these classes led by Ana Lisa Hedstrom?

JUNE 12,13: "Shibori & Natural Dyes" @ San Francisco Sewing Workshop www.thesewingworkshop.com

JULY 12-16: "Shibori using a variety of fabrics and surface applications" @ Pacific Northwest Art School, Whidbey Island, WA www.pacificnorthwestartschool.com

AUGUST 20-24: "Shibori" @ Peters Valley Craft Center, NJ www.petersvalley.org

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if you want to share your teaching or exhibition schedule for this summer, email us: news [at] shibori.org

Class: Stitch Resist, Sue Cavanaugh (Jun6-10, Ohio)

There's still time to register for Sue Cavanaugh's spring workshop on stitch resist shibori. Hurry!

"Stitch Resist Shibori with a Twist" Workshop by Sue Cavanaugh
June 6-10, 2010
Quilt Surface Design Symposium
Columbus, Ohio
*Preregistration is required*

Learn the basics of mokume, ori-nui, and maki-nui, and see how Sue combines and tweaks these stitches to produce award-winning art quilts. Students will use fiber reactive dyes and paint on these dyes to various effects. Students will go home with several small studies.

For a gallery of Sue's work, go here on shibori.org or visit www.suecavanaughart.com

A Greener Indigo - workshop by Barbara Shapiro (Aug 28-30, No. Calif)

For you indigo lovers and practitioners, what better time than now to to learn a more ecologically friendly (and fume-free!) method of dyeing? Well, count your lucky stars. Barbara Shapiro will be teaching a 3-day workshop this fall in the idyllic northern California town of Mendocino. Read more about Barbara here or see previous posts about her workshops & lectures here

"A Greener Indigo"
Mendocino Art Center
August 28 -30, 2010
registration required

Discover the magic of indigo, one of the oldest and most influential dyes. Unravel the mystique and chemistry of traditional practices. Using an effective ecological formula revived from an 18th century vat, we will dye multiple samples in various fibers using shibori techniques and create a personal project. This fume-free formula enables contemporary artists to use natural or synthetic indigo in a safe, ecological studio environment.

Slow Fiber Studio Workshop: Puglia, Italy (June'10)

What could be better than an Italian summer retreat in beautiful Puglia? How about one that's designed around textiles and hosted at a historical 18th c. building on 20 acres of private land!

This June, Yoshiko & Michel Garcia will be co-teaching two natural dye workshops (5-day) using methods that are gentle to humans and the environment. Experiment with sericin removal, arashi, itajime, kaiku shibu, and a variety of natural mordants & dye applications. Learn traditional block printing with natural indigo, katazome, shibugami, and making rice paste resists. Workshops (given in English) will be hosted at the magical Masseria della Zingara located in Puglia.

Silk & Natural Dyeing (June 15-19)
Natural Dye Block Printing Provençal (June 22-26)
click for summary of Puglia retreat

ABOUT. Michel is a natural dye expert & founder of Couleur Garance and le Jardin Conservatoire de Plantes Tinctoriales (Botanical Garden of Dye Plants) in Lauris, France. Yoshiko is an expert on Japanese resist-dye techniques including shibori. Masseria della Zingara, or "The House of the Gypsy," is an important building built in the late 17th / early 18th c. and recently restored by its owners, whose first love is textiles (Jan King, Twisted Thread UK). It sits on 20 acres of private land set principally to olives, almonds, figs and cherries and yet is conveniently adjacent to the village of Triggianello. Puglia is the garden of Italy -- an area of baroque towns filled with white-washed trullos, beaches, orchards, sun, and is rightly famed for both its food and wine.

These workshops are part of what we call our Slow Fiber studio project, a term we adapted from the popularized Slow Food movement to articulate similar concerns and philosophies about social responsibility, local traditions, and cultural capital as they apply specifically to cloth, fiber, and the craft of making — from awareness and knowledge to production, tradition, practice, commerce. Visit our website to learn more about tours & workshops of Slow Fiber Studios "SFS"

www.shibori.org
www.masseriadellazingara.com
http://shiboriorg.wordpress.com/projects/slow-fiber/sfs-puglia-italy-2010/

Indigo lecture by Barbara Shapiro (11/21/09, SF)

I guess October was a slow month! Here's an upcoming workshop and lecture presentation about indigo given by Barbara Shapiro of San Francisco.

"The Magic of Indigo" with Barbara Shapiro
November 21, 2009
SATURDAY @ 10 am
De Young Museum in San Francisco
- presented by the Textile Arts Council -

Discover the magic and delve into the mystery of indigo with Barbara Shapiro, a textile artist whose work has been widely exhibited and published both locally and internationally. Indigo, one of the oldest and most influential of dyes, has a long and fascinating history. Derived from different plants found all around the world, indigo has long been prized for its rare color as well as its medicinal powers. This ancient dye stuff has had a huge impact on fortune and trade
throughout the world as its availability rose and fell with empires. It has come to be strongly associated with certain cultures, not least our own blue denim phenomenon. Well suited to resist dyeing techniques, indigo has given color to a wide variety of distinctive patterning. The mystique and chemistry of traditional formulas and contemporary practices will be discussed in this lecture. Special attention will be given to a particular formula, used extensively in the 18th century, which is making a comeback as a safe and ecological way for contemporary artists to use both natural and synthetic indigo. Barbara Shapiro’s love of indigo has influenced her own woven artwork for many years and has recently given new life to her exploration of traditional basketry forms. Ms. Shapiro is an advisory board member of the Textile Arts Council as well as a board member of the Textile Society of America. She lectures and teaches weaving, dyeing, surface design, and basketry techniques and has volunteered as a teaching assistant at San Francisco State University, where she has maintained the indigo dye pots for many years. Please join us to learn more about the magic and mystery of indigo.

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Also, a workshop (for TAC members only):

A Greener Indigo – a workshop with Barbara Shapiro
November 14, 2009, 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
San Francisco State University

Explore the magic mystery of indigo using a non-toxic “green” formula suitable for the home studio. Alternate recipes will be discussed. The “new” green formula is based on research by French natural dye expert Michel Garcia, presented during the World Shibori (and Natural Dye) Symposium in October 2008.

Cost: $100, including materials
To register: please contact the TAC office at 415 750-3627 or tac@famsf.org

Workshop: "A Greener Indigo" w/ B. Shapiro (14 Nov, San Francisco)

"A Greener Indigo" workshop
led by Barbara Shapiro
November 14, 2009
9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
San Francisco State University

Barbara's recent explorations into a "greener indigo" was inspired by information she learned from natural dye expert, Michel Garcia, during his workshop at the WSN's recent shibori symposium (7th ISS08) in France last year.

Capacity: 12 students
Open to: Textile Arts Council members only. Join today.
Cost: $100, including materials
To register: TAC office 415 750-3627 or tac@famsf.org

Also in November, Barbara will be presenting a related talk for TAC at the De Young Museum, San Francisco, entitled "The Magic of Indigo." Details to be posted on our blog closer to date of event.

Workshop description:
Explore the magic mystery of indigo, one of the oldest and most influential dyes, in a hands-on\ workshop. Barbara will set up an indigo dye bath using a simple ecological formula suitable for studio use. She will introduce basic indigo dyeing procedures and resist techniques for your samples. You will prepare cloth for dyeing and experiment with resist dyeing and printing or painting with thickened indigo. By the end of the day you will have a set of dyed and printed indigo samples and the knowledge to go on using this magic dye with a non-toxic “green” formula suitable for the home studio. Alternate recipes will be discussed. The “new” green formula is based on research by French natural dye expert Michel Garcia, presented during the World Shibori (and Natural Dye) Symposium in October 2008. Barbara has been experimenting with this rediscovered formula since then and feels it is important to share this safer, non-toxic, fume-free, inexpensive, and easily disposed of formula widely used during the 18th century. The formula can also be thickened and used to paint or print with indigo.

More about Barbara Shapiro

LECTURE: Barbara Shapiro in Seattle, Salt Lake City

In Seattle or Salt Lake City this summer?
Check out these great events that textile artist and WSN member Barbara Shapiro will be doing!

Lecture: "Change is Good"
Contemporary Quilt Art Assoc. (@Seattle Pacific University)
June 13 2009

Lecture & 3-day Workshop
On dyeing with acid dyes and "a greener indigo"*
Salt Lake City Surface Design Group
July 8 2009

*this "greener indigo" was a formula Barbara started using after her ISS08 trip where she had the distinct opportunity & privilege to study with Michel Garcia!!

You can see some of Barbara's coiled and plaited baskets at the shop of the Museum of Craft & Folk Art, San Francisco www.mocfa.org

Workshop: Yoshiko at HATCH- Apr 16 (Asheville, NC)

Yoshiko will be teaching two 2-hr workshops in Asheville at the H A T C H festival (which I posted about in an earlier entry here)

"Boro transformed: patching, piecing, and stitching"
April 16 @ 10a-12p ; 1-3p
$30 material fee
BUY TICKETS HERE

This workshop is inspired by a group of Japanese folk textile and clothing from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, such as padded sleeping mattresses and comforters, fishermans coats, lumberjacks vests, and other everyday wear. These were dyed in indigo and extensively patched and darned as necessary, utilizing regional resources to the limit.

Participants will learn about traditional Japanese common textiles made with boro (rags and fabric scraps) and will reinterpret this folk tradition by creating a fabric collage using layering, piecing, sewing and darning. Participants will also explore the use of water-soluble sheets to create open, lace-like structures in collage. Scrap fabrics will be provided by dosa inc. of Los Angeles (www.dosainc.com), and participants are also welcome to bring their own recycled, used, stained scraps or moth-eaten woolens to incorporate into their project.

A note from Yoshiko:

In my forthcoming book, I am using the Japanese term boro to define a new aesthetic and to bring new meaning to an alternative creative process, e.g., darning = healing, meditative action = marking time, reuse/repair = recording history. "Boro" represents the transformation of inconsequential material to something precious and valuable. Ordinarily, these tattered, castaway rags and the articles pieced together from them would be considered of little to no value. Boro, on the other hand, are viewed as beautiful in a way that defies convention. This type of imperfect beauty possesses a power that resonates with people almost like an emotional barometer. It points to an alternative value of "beauty" slowly coming to surface in our social consciousness.

Kyokechi w/Jay Rich (Aug'09, Tilburg)

Workshop announcement for those of you in/near Tilburg, Netherlands

"Carved Board Clamp Resist Dyeing"
Instructor: Jay Rich (USA)

August 26 – 30, 2009
Hosted by Karina van Vught for Studio Zijdelings
Tilburg, Netherlands

Inspired by Jay's kyokechi lecture at Quai Branly during the ISS08, Karina has organized a workshop at her lovely studio in the Netherlands. "Carved Board Clamp Resist Dyeing" will focus on this very old method of clamping and its use in combination with several dyes: Procion MX, Indigo, Persimmon and Safflower.

For more information or to enroll, please visit Zijdelings

Upcoming shibori events in Austria, Germany

Some upcoming events for our European friends and those who might find themselves in Austria and Germany/Netherlands (Nettetal) area in the upcoming months:

Textilkultur Haslach in Austria, summer 09:

• "Experimental Shibori" 5-day workshop, supervised by Veronika Moos-Brochhagen. Other four participating artists include: Stephanie Siepmann, Deutschland; Ysabel de Maisonneuve, Frankreich; Ulrike von Kutzleben-Hausen, Deutschland; Anne-Mie Boonen, Belgien

Founded in 1991, the society TEXTILE KULTUR HASLACH has chosen the fostering of textile art and culture as its main objective with its intention being the fusion of traditional and modern, art and technology, crafts and industry, investigation and teachings, experiments and practical. Located at the river Mühl in the upper Mühlviertel, Haslach village and its surroundings have represented an important centre of the linen industry for centuries. www.textile.kultur.haslach.at (website is in German, English, Czech)

"DIE SCHEUNE" textilmuseum, Nettetal
www.textilmuseum-die-scheune.de

• 26 April - 21 July 09: introduction of Shibori on the basis of Veronika's work
  
• 03 May 09, 11:00am: shibori workshop

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Thanks for the news, Veronika!

Veronika Moos-Brochhagen is a textile artist from Germany and an active WSN community member. Her work was shown at the Musee qu quai Branly in Paris as part of the 7th ISS'08. www.textilkunst.de - www.shibori.eu - www.belonging-and-beyond.net