oin Michel Garcia in Lauris, France as he shares his knowledge as one of the leading natural dye experts in the world. Learn how he has revised traditional European methods - once laborious and polluting - into simpler, safer, modern recipes sensitive to issues of sustainability.

Includes in-depth explorations of indigo pigment extraction with woad, brewing easy organic vats with fructose and with henna, and building shades with clay paste resist; mordanting with alum and ferrous on cotton including brush and block printing techniques, fixing mordant with wheat bran and dyeing yellow with artichoke, and combining techniques for simple polychromatic effects; a mordant project painting and printing with cochineal and red vine leaf; dyeing with madder, discharging with lemon, cleaning with sulfonated castor oil and marseille soap; polychromatic effects with resist paste, block printing, and over-dyeing, using a variety of mordants and dyes.

Extended Bonus Notes on www.naturaldyeworkshop.com are made available with purchase.

Topics:

Indigo Workshop
• Indigo Pigment Extraction with Woad
• Indigo Vat 1-2-3! with Fructose
• Dyeing Various Fibers
• Indigo Vat 1-2-3! with Henna
• Indigo with Resist: Shades of Blue with Clay Paste

Mordants
• Dark Mordant for Cotton: Ferrous Mordant including Brush Techniques and Block Printing
• Bright Mordant for Cotton: Alum Mordant
• Fixing Mordant with Wheat Bran and Yellow Dye from Artichoke Leaves
• Simple Polychromatic Effects by Diluting Alum and Ferrous Mordant
• Color Swatch Project Using Yellow Dye from Artichoke
• Summary: A Variety of Possibilities from Garden Plants and Logwood Extract

Mordant Project: Using Cochineal and Red Vine Leaf
• Color Swatch Review and Thickened Mordant Preparation
• Fabric Painting with Alum Mordant
• Block Printing with Alum Mordant
• Dyeing with Cochineal and Red Vine Leaf

Madder
• Discharging Mordant with Lemon Juice
• Dyeing with Madder and Cleaning with Sulfonated Castor Oil
• Immersion Dyeing: White Designs on a Colored Background Using Lemon Juice Discharge
• Enhanced Cleaning with Marseille Soap

Polychromatic Effects
• Reserving Colors Using Resist Paste in an Indigo Dye Bath: Over-dyeing with Blue on Gall Nut Dyed Fabric
• Four Shades of Madder Immersion Dye
• Indigo Blue and Clay Resist
• Osage Yellow and Block Printing with Alum Mordant Paste
• Ferrous Mordant as a Rust Color
• Designing with Ferrous Mordant and Dyeing with Gall Nut
• Using a Clay Resist and Over-dyeing with Indigo
• Multicolor Effects on Indigo: Using Pomegranate/Alum and Ferrous/Osage/Alum Mix
• Over-dyeing with Cochineal: Multicolor to Polychromatic

Produced by Yoshiko I. Wada (Slow Fiber Studios); Directed and filmed by Andrew Galli (Studio Galli Productions); Music composed by Andrew Galli of Galli Creative; 2011. 2 discs; 4:3 aspect; 183 minutes; worldwide play; English audio; subtitles in Chinese, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish.