Natural Dye

Workshop

with Jane Hoffman

Saturday, August 25, 8:00am to 5:00pm
and
Sunday, August 26, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm

$65 per person or $110 per couple
+ $20 materials fee per person
Kids 12 yrs and older are welcome (cost for kids is the same to cover materials and food)
No special skills or prior experience are needed!

Breakfast and lunch will be served both days of the workshop.

The llama and alpaca fiber yarn will be supplied by Waugh Mountain.

The workshop will be at Waugh Mountain Ranch which is located on the east side of Hwy. 180 in Nutrioso, Arizona; just south of mile marker 414 (across from the transfer station)

For more information about area hotel accomodations click here.

To Register:

Workshop Description

This comprehensive natural dye workshop will show you how to create beautiful, lightfast and washfast color from natural dyes. Jane will bring natural dye plants from her own dye garden and imported dye material. Using Llama and Alpaca fiber you will learn to prepare natural dyes, to mordant, to dye protein fiber, and to experiment with color by using postmordant baths, afterbaths, and exhaust baths.

This year we will be dying grey, fawn, and white or beige roving which will be ready to spin after it is dyed. Using the colored fiber will give us exciting overdye results and demonstrate how any color natural fiber can be dyed for beautiful results.

Workshop participants will acquire the skill to safely dye protein fiber with natural dyes. You will take home recipes that dyers use to extract a variety of shades and range of intensity from natural dyes. From four different dye materials, we will create 16 to 20 plus hues and values. At the end of the workshop, participants will have approximately 20 mini skeins of dyed fiber, handouts and cards with recorded results and attached samples.

• apron or old shirt
• towel
• pencil & scissors
• dishwashing gloves or heavier rubber gloves such as Bluettes®

• a hole punch
• black permanent marker

About the Teacher:

Jane Hoffman

Jane received her degree in Art from Western Washington University. She is a juried member of Arizona Designer Craftsmen, and a member of Twisted Threads Fiber Guild. Her art has been exhibited internationally. Jane has a natural dye plant garden and sells her natural dyes and natural dyed tapestry yarns. She uses both her natural dyes and Procion fiber reactive dyes to create her yarn palette of soft graduated hues for her tapestries. Jane is an Associate Faculty member of the art department of Northland Pioneer College. She teaches a variety of fiber arts including tapestry, felt making, loom building, design, and dyeing. She has taught independent study courses for Prescott College, workshops at Desert Weaving Workshop in Tucson, Sedona Art Center, Twisted Threads Fiber Art Guild, the High Country Fiber Arts Retreat, and Fiber Through Time, and at her studio/farm on the Blue River near the Arizona/New Mexico border.