Indigo Blues: Surface Design with Natural Dyes

Indigo Blues: Surface Design with Indigo

Starts March 28^th 

Indigo Blues: Surface Design with Indigo is a comprehensive Four Week online course which is a one-stop resource for anyone wishing to learn the art of Surface Design with Indigo.

During the Four Week course you develop a solid foundation of the concepts of Surface Design using Indigo. 

I will teach you the necessary core skills needed to create beautiful art cloth with Indigo!

During this Four Week course you will also learn about the history of surface design with indigo from ancient times to modern times.

Topics Covered Include:

• Immersion Dyeing
• Bound Resists including Shibori
• Potato Starch, Gutta, and a non-toxic glue resist for immersion dyeing
• Fabric painting with indigo
• Mono printing, stamping, gelatin plate printing
• Screen printing You will screen print with Rust and Tannin Patterning Techniques via screen printing as a Final BONUS LESSON.

As part of my private Facebook community, you’ll discover a global community of students, and friends, to support and to inspire you.

My passion is for you to experience the joy of working with indigo, and to learn which type of indigo vat works best for you!

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Class begins September 6th!

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Black Birds in Trees

Working on some Crow Cards this afternoon using my Black Birds in Tree Stencil.

The orange mat is a non-slip artist map, unfortunately there is no label on the mat so I have no idea where it came from.

I started out with a piece of painted timtex that was painted by Seta Color Fabric Paints.  I will be adding some oil bar, ink, and other yummies next, and then it's time for some stitching.

WIP Dusk at the Marsh

I am working on a stitched story piece about one of my favorite local marshes and my stencil Black Birds in Tree are the main focus in this new series.  The marshes, Cooper's Marsh & Larson's Marsh, which is just a few miles east of Ames, Iowa, are surrounded by farmland.  

Seta Color Fabric paint on cotton fabric, I painted this fabric using a salt technique sometime around 2004/05. The orange piece is a non-slip gripping pad that holds the fabric in place while I surface the fabric.

I should be able to get four smaller pieces out of the larger piece of fabric, the piece directly above this photo.

For the purple stenciled areas I'm using Galleria thick body paint as it is less inclined to bleed. I applied the paint using a stencil brush and very thin layers of paint building the image up onto the fabric, why yes my hand is sore now!

Finished, the stencil did stick to the fabric, where it came into contact with the wet paint that soon dried.

I have to admit this is my all time favorite stencil in my series!  I will probably leave this particular piece of fabric as is for the moment and work on the other three pieces.  I am toying with using my inverse stencil on one of the pieces, more to come!

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Part One:

• Getting Started
• Painting with Natural Dyes & Gutta Resists
• Creating a mono chromatic painting with Natural Dyes
• Bound Resist

Part Two:

• Other Resists, using tape as a resist, etc.
• Monoprinting with objects.
• Screen printing with Natural Dyes
• Stamping and More with Natural Dyes

Part Three:

• Bundle and/or Compost Dyeing
• Other Bundle Dyeing techniques

• Mixing Surface Design Techniques (painting, resists, etc.,) to achieve gorgeous cloth!

Part Four:

• Making the Gum Tragacanth Binder

• Using textured brayers to make marks on the cloth

• Screen Printing using resists and non traditional techniques (a variation on deconstructed screen printing)

• Monoprinting with found vegetation such as grasses and leaves.

On My Sewing Table

Thinking, contemplating my next move, lots of ideas rambling through my head seemingly too many some times, but then it occurred to me that I can marry several "themes" I've previously worked on for a greater continuity.

More to come later.

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More Stitching

Adding more vine tendrils and bits.
Hand dyed french cotton threads, natural dyed flax, natural dyed painted silk chiffon, on white silk dupioni fabric. Machine and hand stitched.

Working with hand dyed french cotton thread, I'm using a single strand to create a background layer of delicate tendrils.

Working with a couple of colors of hand dyed french cotton thread.  Next I will add more vine bits (like the upper left hand corner) using the same thread only double stranded.

I'm using the ivy bits on my house as my inspiration.

I love how they crisscross defying the laws of design!

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WIP's Corn 2013

Corn No. 1

Corn No. 2

Corn No. 3

Natural dyed cotton fabrics, timtex, machine stitching, aurifil threads.

Small Geode Project

 

Some fibers to chose from for needle felting.

Auditioning fibers.

Finger spun osage orange dyed silk carrier rod.

Now for some machine stitching and then more needle felted fibers.

 

WIP - 022213

More later... natural and compost dyed silk fabrics.

WIP - Hands

Making cave walls, more later!

Encrusting Fabric

 

The round spots were created using marshmallows and puff medium. Fabric Paints, inks, and marshmallows on cotton fabric (left) and silk organza (right).

Well I seem to have misplaced one of my practice samples, to try a technique on, so in the process of looking for that piece I found this duo from 2007. 

WIP - More Hands

From this, white fabric paint on cutch dyed cotton fabric...

Red nom, nom, nom,

To this...

And this...

For this...

Now that the first layer is done it's time to push the surface even further.