Workshops and Presentations
One and two day workshops are given throughout the spring, summer and fall seasons in the art of natural dyeing. Classes are designed to develop student's knowledge of the environmental importance, and ease of creating bio-regional color.
Presentations on the 'Ecology of Color' are designed to advance knowledge for both businesses and educational organizations who are interested in greening their supply chains, and transforming their educational curricula.
Contact Rebecca Burgess to discuss scheduling a workshop or presentation.
Scroll down to see a list of workshops for adults and children. Our first workshop of the year, takes place January 30, 2011. For more information take a look at our offerings below
Weekend at Esalen
Esalen Presents
Regenerative Color
Weekend of March 16-18th
Did you know that many of the dye colors we wear are coal tar based? Renewable color alternatives are plant derived and made from the earth's annually produced resource base. Everyone is welcome to bring their own 6 oz. of yarn, and we will supplement with complimentary local wool samples, and a range of organic cotton and other cellulose fiber samples. You'll walk away with a book of native color! Local yarns we provide are from our region, if you choose to supplement our 2 oz. complementary offering, there are more yarns available here: at Fibershed Marketplace
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Twin Pond Retreat Vermont
Brookfield, Vermont
August 25th, 26th
Learn to make lasting ecological color and explore the botanic dye possibilities of the Vermont dye gardens at Twin Pond Retreat! Learn the practices and processes that will help you approach any plant species and unravel its innate dye potential. Participants will learn how to work with metal ions as binding agents, and where to find these ions in nature. We will complete our work on silk, wool, and cotton, and each student will leave with an array of beautiful samples
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Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
May 5, 2012 (Sold out)
July 28th (Just opened)
9-4pm
Class description:
Ecological Artist and Fibershed founder Rebecca Burgess leads a day long exploration in native plant dyes.
Explore the deep orange, sage-like greens, and sunny yellows that are offered by the native and naturalized plants of our region. Learn everything from harvesting to preparing local fibers to producing beautiful textiles with natural color from the California chaparral ecosystem.
July 28th Class is open for registration!
Spindles & Flyers of California
Berkeley, CA
(Sold Out)
April 21, 2012
Spindles and Flyers Presents:
Experience local, native, and naturalized color sources from the recipes of the newly released book Harvesting Color.
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Farm Alley: Camps for Children
June 18-21st, July 16-19th, August 13th-16th
Little Lane Studios and Ecological Arts Present: A series of themed one-week camps in the San Geronimo Valley, focusing on Art, Ecology, and Agriculture. Children will have the opportunity to learn new skills in the realm of creating clothing, shelter and food for themselves in an artistic, out-door, and child-centered environment. Each camp takes place on a working walnut grove, that hosts a large food and dye garden, as well as a small flock of goats and sheep. Student teacher ratio is 5:1. For more details see the link to our website below.
Registration Page and further details: http://farmalley.com/
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Shakerag Workshop
Shakerag Workshop
St. Andrew's-Sewanee School
June of 2013 (Date TBA)
Experience local color Tennessee style, we will explore the recipes that cover the bioregions of the Southeast, using the local fiber of the area as our palate. Discover the stories of the landscape as they emerge in the botanic and regenerative colors from the regional floristic province.
June 30th 2012
Date: March 3rd and April 7th 2012