Dyeing with Jane Woodhouse
“Singing the Blues”
The Retreat Dyeing Session will feature this class with Jane Woodhouse:
Saturday all day and Sunday morning
This class will work with 3 natural indigo vats of varying strengths. Attention to mixing vats with a focus on the final color value will be stressed. Thus we will have one for pale, medium and dark colored yarns. Correct measuring of dye material to the volume water in the vat will be emphasized to insure successful indigo dyeing. Students will be running samples on natural colored yarn and sa collection pre-dyed colors to mix for greens and blue/green and purple shades as well as a few surprise colors. Finally, correct finishing of indigo dyed yarns will be demonstrated to minimize crocking. Students will leave with a collection of all the dyed samples, recipes for all colors dyed and pre-dyed along with complete instructions for making the vats.
Questions? Contact jane@brigidsfarm.com
Friday Add-on Class – Portfolio Making
This is for the those who want to organize and display their samples of yarn or handwoven, knitted or felted cloth. Come and explore some book based, structures to keep your work documented and in order. A bag of dyed yarn samples is only useful if you have it cataloged and labeled. Use these structures to add interest and creativity to your work and keep yourself engaged in that work. This class will look at some very simple structures and spend the major part of the class putting together a pocketed structure that can store dyed yarn samples or cloth samples for easy reference.
About Jane Woodhouse
Jane has spent over 40 years working as a production weaver. In 1991 she earned an MFA from San Francisco State University with a concentration in textiles. She currently lives in Peacham, Vermont on Brigid’s Farm. Her mail order business and on-farm studio specialize in natural dyes. She teaches regularly in her studio but travels several times a year to teach at festivals (including the Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival, NY Sheep and Wool Festival, The Gathering, Vermont Technical College, and most recently at PlyAway 3 in Kansas City) for guilds and other venues. Jane is a contributing author to Ply Magazine and Spin-Off Magazine. Jane’s other interests include spinning and knitting, ethnic textiles and surface design techniques on hand woven fabrics.