5.3.25 Color Play with Rachel Bingham Kessler

Regular price $210.00 Sale

Saturday, May 3rd - 11:00am - 5:00pm

Spend a full day playing with color! Using prepped fibers, we’ll explore prepared natural pigment powders, freshly foraged plants and various eco printing techniques. Come away with your own color catalog of sample yarns and fabrics plus several eco printed tests of your work from the day. We’ll take the time at the end of class to insert all our samples into our booklets with labels. This will be a hands-on class where we will be checking dye pots often, sorting fresh plants, and covering a lot of ground with as many colors as we have time for.

No previous dyeing experience needed.

Cost includes a bundle of materials - pre scoured and pre mordanted natural fibers, hand made booklet with all instructions, foraged and pigment powdered dye stuffs.

Materials to bring:

durable rubber gloves (Mr. Clean are Rachel's go-to)
an apron or wear clothes you don't mind accidentally dyeing
lunch - we'll take a 30-45 minute break for lunch

Rachel Bingham Kessler is a plant dye educator, writer, sewist, and painter with a degree in Art Education. She runs 44Clovers, a small batch yarn company specializing in Maine primitive wool breeds and plant dyes. She’s taught fiber and plant dye workshops at venues such as Squam Art Workshops and The Maine Fiber Frolic. Her work has been published in Taproot Magazine and Northern Journeys Magazine. She will be teaching Natural Dyeing in Ireland this October in collaboration with Knittingtours.com. She lives on Peaks Island off the coast of Portland, Maine with her husband and two kids. You can follow her at 44clovers.com and @44Clovers on Instagram.

Class Cancelation Policy:

If you cancel more than 30 days before the beginning of your class, we will offer you store credit in the amount of your class. Cancelation with 30 days or less notice will result in the forfeiture of your entire course fee. However, if we are able to fill your spot, we will offer store credit in the amount of the class.

If we cancel a class, you can choose to receive a full refund or store credit.