Create your own hand dyed threads and wield a paintbrush for your textiles, infusing your creations with a burst of vibrant, personalized color.
With your own threads, yarns, ribbons and lace, you have complete control over the color palette in your textile creations, ensuring your work is truly unique.
This workshop teaches with cold water, fibre reactive dyes on plant based materials such as cotton, linen, hemp and blends of these. Silk and silk blends will also work well. Wool and wool blends need another process are not suitable for this workshop.
Vibrant Colour Combinations
Hand or Machine Stitching
Combine Fabrics and Threads
When the magic happens, you will build up the repeatable skills of the dyeing process. As an artist, this element will be a powerful tool in enhancing your creative process, not to mention your thread inventory!
Imagine mixing different hues, saturations, and even dyeing techniques. The result? Surprising and unique colour variations that you might not have envisioned beforehand. These unexpected colour shifts can spark new ideas and inspire you to explore uncharted artistic territory. They add a layer of spontaneity to your work, infusing it with freshness and vitality.
Save money and build a sustainable approach by customizing colors, and reduce the need for buying pre-dyed materials.
Just $75.00 CDN
- Your Supply List will be provided on your Welcome Page after registering.
Yummy Colours
Exciting Textures
Gorgeous Gradations
Dyeing by a Thread Online Workshop offers:
- comprehensive studio set-up - how to prepare your space
- how to skein or warp all your threads - no more tangles
- important record keeping - for repeatable results
- dye preparations - making dye solutions
- resources for supplies - where to buy
- unusual approaches - to make a variety of effects
- how to batch, rinse and store - for a new approach to your textile art
Just $75.00 CDN
- This workshop teaches with cold water, fibre reactive dyes on plant based materials such as cotton, linen, hemp and blends of these. Silk and silk blends will also work well. Wool and wool blends need another process and are not suitable for this workshop.
Dyeing by a Thread Online Workshop offers lifetime access to:
- OVER 2 Hours of video content - step by step instructions
- dye recipes for each technique
- colour gradations - light to dark - you choose the number of values - 4 - 6 - 8 or more!
- colour to colour run - your own unique combinations - blue-orange or yellow-black or red-indigo - oh, the possibilities!
- tray dyeing - its not just thread, add fabric, lace, ribbon or?
- overdyeing - NO MORE BORING! Use up the leftovers and make them sing!
Just $75.00 CDN
- This workshop teaches with cold water, fibre reactive dyes on plant based materials such as cotton, linen, hemp and blends of these. Silk and silk blends will also work well. Wool and wool blends need another process and are not suitable for this workshop.
Questions? Just email me: susanpm@shaw.ca
