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Beautiful Silks Institute of Textile Wisdom

Patricia Black, : Twist & Shape: Three Dimensional Shibori Workshop. Basic dyeing knowledge/skills required to attend this workshop. If you want to attend this workshop and want to aquire basic dyeing skills, please attend one of our Monday evening classes.

Saturday & Sunday 13th 14th August 2011 workshop booking code PB04. Doors open at 9am for a 930 start, concludes 4pm daily but students are Ok to work on till 5 if you wish.

Areas covered in this workshop - shibori arranging, clamping, degumming, dyeing, and further - discharge to create surface design patterns

Indulge in 2 days of cloth mysticism with Patricia Black.

See link The Poet of Cloth

Link to other utube Patricia Black work

Three wonderful days - one workshop - 12 people limit.

Cost : $299.00 plus a materials fee of $40 per person which will cover the cost of chemicals and a kit of 6 trial materials.

 

Tutor Profile: Patricia Black

Patricia Black is a textile practitioner whose career has ranged from design for theatre and dance to teaching her specialized field of dimensional textiles using dyeing techniques whose collective Japanese name is 'shibori'.

Having studied this art with Japanese dyemasters and
designers in Japan in 1993 -Junichi Arai, Hiroyuko Shindo and Kae Hayakawa.
Patricia learnt the ancient techniques of 'Shibori' and adapted them
using commercial dyes on silk and wool in place of traditional indigo to create 3-D forms that are flexible and texturally rich.
Patricia has been workshop leader in many schools and conferences worldwide including the ETN conference in Rovaniemi,Finland (2000)Haslach.Austria (2009), ISS Symposium, Harrogate (2000), HV Skolan,Stockholm and an annual tutor at Fondazione Lisio, Italy.
Featured in the 2005 San Francisco's Fine Art Museum exhibition 'Artwear', Patricia was invited speaker for the ISS conference in Harrogate,England (2001) Tama Art University,Tokyo (2005) and showd her work at Musee Branly at the recent International Shibori Symposium in Paris(2008). She is a member of the World Shibori Network and European Textile Network Texere (textiles in education committee.)
The workshop focuses on adapted forms of resist using acid dyes with an emphasis on silk's ability to retain a 3D memory.The more samples will be manipulated and draped to form wearable sculptures to adorn the body.Experimentation and personal detailing will be the the objectives.

To enrol email: workshops@beautifulsilks.com or call (03) 9419 7745

 

 

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