December 6+7
11am-5pm
Join regional artist Hannah Watson for this two-day workshop!
This workshop will introduce students to the vast and varied textile language of natural dyeing and weaving practices! We’ll spend the first day learning about mordanting—or preparing our wool and silk yarns to dye with plants—and then dyeing our yarns using ground natural dyes.
Day two will be dedicated to weaving on pre-warped (table) looms with our dyed weft yarns! Throughout this workshop, students will be guided through the basic chemistry involved in natural dyeing processes, preparation of their yarns for dyeing and for weaving, and an array of beginning weaving techniques in this two day workshop. The potency of natural color never ceases to amaze and will surely inspire new weavers to experiment at the loom.
Students will leave class with a woven sample upon which to build for future projects!
This class is open to new weavers and dyers or those who are seasoned in the practice.
All students will take home their very own tabletop, fully assembled wooden loom, shuttle and comb if the selection is made below.
If you choose to bring your own loom, please make sure it is the same flat weave table top loom we use in-class or similar and select the option below.
If the option you would like to select is not available, please call or text the workshop manager, Kelly, at (920) 474-6853 or send an email to atelierinreno@gmail.com.
All materials are provided. If you decide at the end of class you want to take home your loom, you are welcome to purchase.
please note
This class has a maximum sign-up of twelve (12) participants. At this time, due the amount of pre-planning, nature of a workshop environments and with respect to our instructor, we can not issue refunds on workshop registrations. In the event of an emergency, please notify us you will not be attending at least 48 hours prior to receive a credit towards another workshop. Workshop credits are not good for any in-store purchases.
please bring
water bottle, snacks
about hannah
Hannah Watson (b. 1991, Columbia, South Carolina) is a textile & mixed media artist whose work is driven by deep diving into the psychology of human development and connection to place, rhythm, color, and pattern. As her grandmothers were both textile artists and her parents jointly ran an architectural firm, her childhood was heavily influenced by cloth, architecture, and drawing. After earning her B.S. in cultural anthropology and costume design from the College of Charleston, she worked with a women’s weaving cooperative in the Sacred Valley, Peru in 2014 and then returned to South Carolina to work with an indigo grower & dyer. Hannah pursued natural dyeing, weaving, and collage education at Penland School of Craft and John C. Campbell Folk School in western North Carolina and completed a Professional Craft degree in Textiles at Haywood Community College in 2019. She currently lives and works in Portland, OR as a textile artist and instructor at WildCraft Studio School.
December 6+7
11am-5pm
Join regional artist Hannah Watson for this two-day workshop!
This workshop will introduce students to the vast and varied textile language of natural dyeing and weaving practices! We’ll spend the first day learning about mordanting—or preparing our wool and silk yarns to dye with plants—and then dyeing our yarns using ground natural dyes.
Day two will be dedicated to weaving on pre-warped (table) looms with our dyed weft yarns! Throughout this workshop, students will be guided through the basic chemistry involved in natural dyeing processes, preparation of their yarns for dyeing and for weaving, and an array of beginning weaving techniques in this two day workshop. The potency of natural color never ceases to amaze and will surely inspire new weavers to experiment at the loom.
Students will leave class with a woven sample upon which to build for future projects!
This class is open to new weavers and dyers or those who are seasoned in the practice.
All students will take home their very own tabletop, fully assembled wooden loom, shuttle and comb if the selection is made below.
If you choose to bring your own loom, please make sure it is the same flat weave table top loom we use in-class or similar and select the option below.
If the option you would like to select is not available, please call or text the workshop manager, Kelly, at (920) 474-6853 or send an email to atelierinreno@gmail.com.
All materials are provided. If you decide at the end of class you want to take home your loom, you are welcome to purchase.
please note
This class has a maximum sign-up of twelve (12) participants. At this time, due the amount of pre-planning, nature of a workshop environments and with respect to our instructor, we can not issue refunds on workshop registrations. In the event of an emergency, please notify us you will not be attending at least 48 hours prior to receive a credit towards another workshop. Workshop credits are not good for any in-store purchases.
please bring
water bottle, snacks
about hannah
Hannah Watson (b. 1991, Columbia, South Carolina) is a textile & mixed media artist whose work is driven by deep diving into the psychology of human development and connection to place, rhythm, color, and pattern. As her grandmothers were both textile artists and her parents jointly ran an architectural firm, her childhood was heavily influenced by cloth, architecture, and drawing. After earning her B.S. in cultural anthropology and costume design from the College of Charleston, she worked with a women’s weaving cooperative in the Sacred Valley, Peru in 2014 and then returned to South Carolina to work with an indigo grower & dyer. Hannah pursued natural dyeing, weaving, and collage education at Penland School of Craft and John C. Campbell Folk School in western North Carolina and completed a Professional Craft degree in Textiles at Haywood Community College in 2019. She currently lives and works in Portland, OR as a textile artist and instructor at WildCraft Studio School.
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