Last weekend I was lucky enough to be asked to run a short workshop in Katazome dyeing at Megalo. We had a small class of 5 lovely students and despite my fears of running out of time, everyone managed to produce work over the weekend. (yay!)
We started by having a bit of a cooking session on Thursday evening, to make our resist paste.
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| Mashing the paste as it came out of the steamer, mixing mixing mixing and Ta-da! perfect paste. |
Next step was for everyone to complete their designs and cut a stencil.
And then we could get messy and print onto our fabric with the resist paste!
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| Everybody hard at work |
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| Jane's motif printed onto her teatowel |
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| Ele's teatowel half printed, the big reveal as she lifts of her stencil |
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| Jane 2's two tea towel's printed. One negative and one positive image |
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| Tanya printing her stencil |
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| ...and touching up small "bridges" in her stencil with resist paste |
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| Everyone's printed fabric ready to dry overnight. Emma's grid in foreground. |
See part two: Sunday was spent dyeing the pasted fabric, applying fixative and then rinsing to reveal the fianl artwork!
The class looks great. I have recently started to teach katazome in my local area, and would like to ask you - what type of paper you are using with your students? The cost of shibugami is really prohibitive for me and for beginning students. I would appreciate your contacting me about this, or simply post your answer here and I will check back. thank you! eastmankm@gmail.com
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