Online event
Dyeing with Summer Flowers with Deepa Natarajan
Join natural dyer, gardener, and ethnobotanist Deepa Natarajan for a virtual dye demo highlighting summer flowers. Dyeing with flowers can be incredibly rewarding as these little punches of color work their magic quickly on cloth! Plant highlights will come from Deepa and co-author Helen Krayenhoff's book "10 Plants for Color" with a handful of other […]
Growing & Processing Flax with Sandy Fisher
Join Sandy Fisher of Chico Flax for an online presentation about growing and processing flax to make linen. Sandy will first show images of this year's crop—growing, harvesting, retting in the field and in the tanks, and drying on the lines before processing. Sandy will then do a hands-on demo of all three steps of […]
Tips for Sewing Jeans with Dan DiSanto
Join designer Dan DiSanto for a virtual sewing demo on how to do a join fly, how to make a fell seam on a single needle machine, and some pocket tricks for blue jeans. Participants will be invited to submit questions. Register on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2mKkK672T2uF07DaKgAdPQ A video of the webinar will be made available to […]
Japanese Indigo Extraction for Home Dyers and Artists with Judi Pettite
Join Judi Pettite of BioHue for an online session on small scale pigment extraction from Japanese indigo (Persicaria tinctoria). Judi will provide step-by-step instruction on the process of yielding pigment from the plant. This class is ideal for anyone who has Japanese indigo in the garden and wants to use the extract for an indigo […]