Try Your Hand at Shibori
15 hours 3 hours per day for 5 days. Homework assignments Monday-Wednesday
Ages: 10 to adult
Prerequisite: Participants must know how to iron.
Cost: $100.00 plus cost of materials
Make several scarves or other utilitarian items in a variety of shibori techniques. Students will finish the class with completed items.
Possible items: Flat crepe scarf in loose arashi pattern.
Pleated charmeuse “flower scarf”
Flat habotai scarf in clamped pattern
One-color T-shirt with karamatsu pattern(s)
Small habotai scarf with butterfly/flower patterns w/wo arashi
Satin “web” patterned scarf
Chiffon patterned (machine stitched) scarf.
This is the first time I’ll be teaching this particular class, and it has an ambitious project list. Chances are that not everyone (perhaps no one) will be able to do everything in just three hours a day. Some will be able and willing to take hand work home, and some will not, so it will have to be finished in class, pre-empting other things. So, there will be choices to be made, and priorities set. And I may have overstated what is possible for the allotted time. In future, I may very well have to adjust down. Materials fees will be based on what each participant attempts, to paid on Friday. If an item is begun, but not finished, student will pay for that item.
Techniques:
Arashi shibori, with and without pleats
Rainbow dyeing
Clamped shibori
MX dyeing (cold water fiber-reative)
Acid dyeing (boiled)
Hand-stitched shibori
Machine-stitched shibori