Natural Dye with Medicinal Herbs
Explore the beauty and magic of botanical color, using the bundle dyeing processes to create color and texture on fiber with medicinal herbs.Cost:
$45.00 per personDuration:
1h 30minAbout this experience
In this workshop, we will explore the beauty and magic of botanical color, using the bundle dyeing processes to create color and texture on fiber with medicinal herbs. Dyeing with plants is an ancient, grounding practice, a way to deeply connect with plants. We will go over the basics of natural dyeing - what types of materials are suitable to dye with and dye on, how to prepare them, and which dye plants also have medicinal properties. Students will leave the class with a bundle dyed bandana, imprinted with the shape and colors of the plants they chose to work with.
Your Host
Katey Rissi is a Pacific-Northwest-based printmaker, textile artist and educator. Her work explores themes of bio-regionalism, ecology, place, time, rewilding, and enchantment. In terms of process, she is focused on slow-making practices like relief printing, analog image-making techniques, mending textiles, working with natural dyes, and making art materials out of things gathered and grown.
Katey holds a BFA in graphic design from Western Michigan University with a focus in photography and printmaking, and studied screenprinting at the Art Student’s League of Denver. She teaches art classes to both youth and adults, and has worked in program planning, as an elementary school art teacher, and as a teaching artist for the past 6 years.
In addition to her artmaking practice, Katey maintains an herbal medicine and community wellness project called Salish Sea Apothecary. She is interested in community care, healthcare accessibility, and herbalism as an avenue for mutual aid and reparations.
She is from the white pine forests of the Great Lakes bioregion, and is currently living on an island in the Salish Sea.