Sunday, 18 August

Pattern making with Indigo online live workshop

In this online live workshop 4 sessions, learn to set up an Indigo ferrous vat, maintain it and create prints using resist paste and batik.

By Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw @ The Lansdowne House

Date and time

Sun, 18 Aug 2024 08:00 - Sun, 8 Sep 2024 11:00 PDT

Location

Online

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About this event

21 days 3 hours

In this 4 weeks workshop online live on zoom (recorded for late review) you will learn how to create an Indigo Ferrous vat using the original 1900 recipe. Over the 4 weeks you will be taught how to maintain it and we will have trouble shooting sessions, and you will learn a variety of resist techniques to create some prints on cellulose material (I suggest cotton and linen).

This workshop will take place online on zoom on a weekly basis from the Sunday 18th August 2024 at 4pm UK time (3 hours but be aware we are processed driven and we can go over if many live questions are asked). It will be recorded and the recording will be shared with the participants together with a set of instructions to keep. I make the videos available for 2 years minimum.

Between sessions you will have access to a FB group where different groups of Indigodyers/printers are interacting. It is a small international group and it is a great place for you to share results and interact with others.

Over the 4 weeks we will:

learn how to set up a ferrous vat, and how Indigo works. I will show you how to dye with your vat and how to trouble shoot with it.
Learn to select and prepare fabric to dye.
Learn to prepare and use a Soya resist paste to create prints.
Learn how to prepare and use Batik wax in a brushed organic technique
Learn to neutralise and finish your pieces.

At the end of the workshop you will have :

One new vat technique
A selection of artwork on fabric and basic knowledge on how to use the resists techniques for you to experiment further.
A good understanding about how Indigo works.

The workshop is led by Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw from #Theindigoplot an Award winning dye garden in the Glasgow Botanical garden. She is dye educator who works with Indigo both fresh leaves and pigment. She runs a sustainable studio in Glasgow and both research and teaches Indigo dyeing.

In the summer she grows Indigo and Woad in Glasgow and should you want to be involved in 2024 send her an email request. bettysbeautifullife@gmail.com

Her work can be seen on https://www.instagram.com/bettysbeautifullife/

This event is suitable for beginners... we all have to learn to walk before we run.

I will not teach the geometrical piece here but I will give you the tools and techniques and more importantly my tips to make your own creative one

I am afraid that all bookings are final, As the video recording will be available in the future for replay I am not able to offer refunds for the bookings, but if you have a medical reason I will bounce you on the next course.

Organised by

Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw @ The Lansdowne House

I have a long history with working with paint and paper and recreating historic schemes in listed buildings. My love for contact prints has come from my travels in Asia. I work with Eco Printing, Eco Dyeing, Indigo Dyeing, Stencilling.

I love initiating creativity in my course participants. I am passionate about creating art in a sustainable way, I love reusing, recycling, I work in a circular Economy and makes the best of my local resources in Art with participants coming from the whole world.

I teach in person and online live using the zoom platform. I like engaging in long term communities courses/projects. As we learn to work with each other we create better projects... outcomes...

I currently work on two global/local projects based on Ecodyeing/printing :

#Theindigoplot circa 2021 is about growing Japanese Indigo small scale and dyeing from it as well as understanding the meaning of the Indigo production/vat. I grow Japanese Indigo in Scotland with a group of "Home growers and in the grounds of The Glasgow Botanical Garden. I also run a 9 months course "The Indigo diaries" with a group of online participants where we grow together before experiencing a number of ways of dyeing with our Fresh Persicaria Tinctoria leaves and our Indigo Pigment. If you want to register your interest for the 2023 group please be in touch by email bettysbeautifullife@gmail.com

#thetruecolourofthecotinus circa 2020 is about Botanical printing the Cotinus leaves (and new for 2022 extracting pigment from the leaves) ... created as an online project to connect hundreds of participants locked down at home in the spring of 2020 we have learned to understand our mordants and create blue out of our leaves... but also create beautiful prints out of just the one plant The Cotinus. In 2022 I will add the Euphorbia Cotonalia plant to the testing to welcome participants from the Southern Hemisphere. We will extract pigments to make printing paste and water colour. The group is supported by a FB page and has an ongoing outcome with regular short online workshops.

I have in the past been involved in projects with, The House for an Art Lover, Glasgow Museums, Granton Hub, National Trust for Scotland, The Willow Tea rooms Trust, a number of primary and secondary schools in Scotland. I run collaborations with local artists.

I will run private workshops in my studio or your premises for private groups (corporate excertises or hens parties ...)

In my workshops you will learn a creative technique and complete a creative project, you will go home wih a unique object.. you made ! Today you make your own future happy memories !

#Bettysbeautifullife