Friday 9 October 2009

shakerag



i'm delighted to advise that Shakerag have published their workshop details for 2010

and that they're kindly letting me offer two courses there next summer

Quiltfelt Landskin
In the quiltfelt landskin class students will undertake daily windfall walks, dyeing strips of fabric to be used in a layered, pieced, stitched , quilted and ultimately also felted cloth whose gentle colours will reflect those of the woods around us. The pieced cloth will grow organically day by day as small dyed fragments are added, before a gentle wet-fulling process is applied on the last day followed by one final overdye to bring harmony to the piece in the form of a last colour wash.

and

A walk in the woods
Every plant gives some kind of colour, depending on how it is processed. This class will embrace a number of methods for colour extraction as well as protocols for plant collection and plant identification.

Participants will explore the local area around Shakerag through writing, drawing, stitching, and dyeing, taking mindful windfall walks, mapping marks, observing and responding to the essence of the woods.

During the week we will dye silk and wool, using windfall leaves from the woods, and construct a series of small leaf-illustrated textile notebooks that will be both maps of the journey taken and documents recording the week’s explorations.

We will work with plant dyes, stitching, paper, and cloth.

this of course allows me my [fast becoming annual] pilgrimage to San Francisco [don't worry, we're planting trees here to make up for all those flights]
and
means that i'll be stateside when Eco Colour [the American version] is published there on July 1, 2010

14 comments:

  1. I am delighted to say that I will be able to attend the first session at Shakerag...A Walk in the Woods. I am so looking forward to meeting you and working with the group of artists who will be attending.

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  2. arrgh! i can't make either session, we in ny keep our kids in school till the third week of june. so, this teacher has to stay around. i would love to go to shakerag! but pbi will be a little later- you could go!

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  3. Any plans for workshops here in Australia? What about a lovely visit to the Southern Highlands of NSW? Burrawang has a beautiful School of Arts building which would be a great venue for workshops.

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  4. Velma dear, what's "pbi"?
    and
    thanks Susan, it's a nice thought...i'm waiting on a few proposals to gel [or not] before making too many other plots for next year
    and
    there's a matter of the 80,000 words my publisher is expecting on May 1.
    it's comforting to know that folks are taking an interest in the wanderings.

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  5. wanderings. yes. i wish i would be wandering your way for a class.....you did say that you missed new england?????? what if i were to find a way to 'produce' a workshop??????

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  6. my favorite part - the mindful windfall walking

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  7. Have a wonderful experience in San Francisco...it is difficult not to fall in love with this mystical city by the bay. Bravo! Imagine and Live In Peace, Mary Helen Fernandez Stewart

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  8. sounds idyllic - how wonderful to be able to take part.

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  9. Oh yes India, folks are taking an interest in your wanderings. Let me know if and when you visit these lowlands again and i'm happy to join.
    XXXm

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  10. this one has been some 15 months in the planning Martine, unlike my spur-of-the-moment visit to beautiful Belgium, but they say 'slow' is 'in' these days...

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  11. Hi,
    Congrats on the workshops. I'm sure your students will learn much from you. Super WOW about your book! I'm an artist in other medium and have great respect for ecology and fiber art. I'm still learning about you from your blog. (You commented on my old blog "Emerald Eyes" several months ago.) Oh, and I'm smiling at your notation about "rainbows and rose petals" most welcome.
    -gel

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  12. pbi--paper and book intensive, check it out on the web. a wonderful working sabbatical for paper and book workers...i see such a connection between your work and the "harder" fibers (paper and books)

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  13. I could use 2 weeks with you but funds allow only 1. I've signed up for week 2 as have a few other friends. Sweet reunion. Next: order fabric from Beautiful Silks

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  14. why can't I fly......India not so often here because I'm in a revalidation centre and have so little time to spent on the computer. In spring I'll be there alive and kicking!

    love
    yvette

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