Natural Dyeing Class with Justin | Madder Root, Mushrooms, and Gardenia Pods
Natural Dyeing Class with Justin | Madder Root, Mushrooms, and Gardenia Pods
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Saturday, February 21st, from 1-3pm
Supplies Included:
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All natural dye supplies including plants and mordants
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Personal protection equipment
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Please bring 1–3 skeins of undyed yarn (wool, cotton, linen, silk, ramie, cashmere, angora, or alpaca).
To take home yarn in all three colors, you may either:
• Purchase three full skeins, or
• Purchase one skein and have it wound into three mini skeins.We carry a great selection of undyed yarn in store and are happy to help you choose the perfect base.
- Plants and what colors you can create with them
- PH Scale and how it effects color
- Maintaining temperature
- Common fibers used in dyeing
- Mordants and how they work with natural pigments and fibers
Justin Bullard an RN, urban alchemist and ethnobotanist, with undergraduate and masters degrees in medical ethnobotany that included extensive travels and field work in Nepal. He has also studied indigo dyeing and sericulture in Japan.
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When he’s not registered nursing he’s an accomplished craftsman in the fiber arts, silver smithing, and has an all-natural soap line of "Urban Alchemist” soaps among other natural products.
From Justin's Bio: "I've been studying herbal medicine from the age of 13, and was raised using medicinal plants at home. I have formally studied ethnomedicine, phytochemistry, nutrition, microbiology, botany, medical anthropology. And had the privilege of studying with Carol Hendrickson, Lucia Cargill, Roy Ellen, Nadia Lovell, Laura Rival and Bryan Whitehead.”
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