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SARA BURNETT
SHIBORI ON WOOL FELT AND WOOL
 Thursday October 14 and Friday October 15, 2010
9:00AM - 5:00PM
Class Size - 10 Students
Class Fee: $350 includes materials and handouts
CLASS CONTENT: This class will begin with each student felting two-three wool and silk scarves.They will use either wool prefelt and silk or fine merino wool and silk. Basic Nuno felting skills will be learned.The pieces will be half felted and used as the base to learn shibori techniques and natural dyeing. The shibori techniques will include hand stitching (at least 6 different kinds of stitches), pole wrapping (arashi shibori), fold and clamping shibori, pleating on a rope and mutiple shibori dyeing (for more advanced students).The class is multi leveled so students with shibori experience are welcome. The felted scarves will not only retain the stitched,wrapped or clamped designs but will also be felted more and the actual shapes become a part of the structure of the finished piece. The natural dyes will include an indigo dye vat and the basic traditional natural dyes: cochineal, madder, osage orange, weld, walnut and cutch, plus more. We will use a combination of raw plant materials and extracts. We will discuss color and color blending as it applies to natural dyes and the shibori process.
SHIBORI:
Shibori is the Japanese word for a variety of ways of embellishing textiles by shaping cloth and securing it before dyeing....rather than treating cloth as a two dimensional surface,with shibori it is given a three dimensional form by folding, crumpling, stitching, plaiting or plucking and twisting...The special characteristic of shibori resist is a soft blurry edged pattern....change and accident also give life to the shibori process and this is its special magic and strongest appeal.
from Shibori by Yoshika Wada
‘What comes from the earth shall not harm the earth.”...Earthues
The shibori dyeing will use plants,wood,roots,and insects to create beautiful, safe and permanent colors from Nature.The dyes we will use will include: indigo, weld, madder root, cochineal, cutch, lac, osage orange, bloodroot and more.
SHIBORI TECHNIQUES:
Fold and Clamp
Arashi Shibori ( pole wrap )
Pleating on a rope
Handstitching...6 different hand stitches depending on the time.
The dyes used will include:
Cochineal Bugs
Madder Root
Osage Orange wood
Pommegranite
Fustic Wood
Logwood
Weld
Cutch
The class time will be spent learning the shibori techniques on samples, decorating 3-5 felted wool and silk scarves, and doing the dyeing as we go so that several colors can be applied to one piece and students can learn how to mordant and use both plant materials and extracts.
Materials:( to be provided by the instructor)
Wool Prefelt
Fine merino wool to make at least 2 scarves
Silk fabrics to combine with wool
Silk scarves
Bubble Wrap for felting
Noodles
Wood Clamps
PVC poles for Arashi
Needle Threaders
Soft board for drawing designs
Dyes and dye extracts
Dye pots
16 Gallons of distilled water
Mordants
Buckets
Stoves
Stirring sticks
Plastic
Drying rack
Iron
Ironing board
Rolling mats
Cardboard
Samples
Books
Handouts ( Bibliography and where to buy the Materials that we use in the class for felting,shibori and natural dyeing)
Students Need to Bring:
Notebook
Pencil
Yardstick
Ruler
1 spool dual duty white thread
1 package size 10-11 embroidery needles or milleners needles
straight pins and pin cushion
Box of 1 quart ziplock bags
1 ball household cotton string...about the weight of kite string
Office clips,marbles,small stones
Extra irons and ironing boards are needed...bring one if you can
If you can, bring 2 pieces about 18" long of PVC pipe...at least 4" wide in diameter
1 box of saran wrap...clear,not colored
Scissors...2 pairs...one for regular cutting and a small pair of embroidery scissors
old stockings...to make 8 ties
apron
mask to protect against dye fumes
2 old towels
2 plastic buckets
If you have a quilting board please bring one
Register On Line
Sara Burnett is a well known feltmaker, designer and educator. She has studied various interests in art at Boston University, Empire State College, and RIT. After an apprenticeship at The Rochester Folk Art Guild, she studied with a master weaver, Ruth Holroyd, in her home studio. At the guild, Sara helped raise sheep, and process their fiber starting with the raw fiber from the sheep, progressing through using locally gathered plant material for dying the wool. She earned a degree in Fine Art through the presentation of an extensive portfolio and oral presentation.
Since 1990, Sara has been teaching fiber arts classes for children and in 1998 began to include adult classes as well. Topics include knitting, spinning, vegetable dying, shibori weaving and, of course, feltmaking. She and her husband Michael are the the owners of their own imported textile business - Ancient Textiles.
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