ART CLASS

BOTANICAL PRINTING with Jan Quarles

Saturday, September 26 , 10AM – 4PM (Ages 14+)

Botanical printing is a fascinating process that works with nature to provide stunning results. In this one-day workshop, you’ll learn one way to create pattern on fabric by making prints with actual plants, and we’ll talk about other techniques as well. You’ll learn about ethically foraging for plants that make good prints, and preparing natural fabric to accept plant color. You’ll then
design and roll your own scarf before we complete the steaming and finishing processes. While your larger project is steaming, you will make a bundle dyed bandanna!

All materials provided. Kits include a silk scarf, an organic bandanna (already mordanted for you), dowel for rolling, dye blanket for color as desired, project ties and other essentials.

ABOUT JAN

Jan Quarles is a long-time fiber artist who works with the beauty of the natural world. For more than 30 years she’s been a dyer, weaver, knitter, seamstress, and spinner. Today, with her small business of What Nature Leaves, she is a botanical printer, natural dyer, and a practitioner of shibori and katazome who deeply loves the magic of indigo. Quarles had a solo show of her indigo and botanical prints in Nashville and currently has work in Arrowmont’s summer gallery shows. She has studied with many teachers at Arrowmont, Penland, John C. Campbell and other craft venues nationally and internationally. She is a former journalist and professor of mass communication in the United States and overseas who has always practiced her fiber arts in the hours that were her own.