Class Description

This natural dye class will focus on dyeing with one of our most invasive plants in Vermont, glossy buckthorn. This class will walk you through dye bath preparation, color shifting the dye using various mineral salts and some fun techniques to create variation in your fabric or garment. Participants should bring some natural fiber garments in a very light color, light colored yarn or light colored fabric to dye. Participants will also be emailed instructions on how to prepare their fabric for dye before the class but this is an optional step.

October 6th 6:00-7:30

Location- Front Porch Makerspace (rain location- textile studio)

Cost- $25

Minimum class size- 2

Age- 7+ (all children must be accompanied by an adult)

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Please register at least 24 hours in advance.

There is a $5 non-refundable registration fee, the remainder of the class price is collected the day of the class.‍ ‍

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Instructor Bio

Aja Ewing (she/her) is a 3rd generation fiber artist who specialises in fiber education and how textiles are connected with our natural resources. She has a BS in Natural Resource Management from Green Mountain College and a MS in Wildlife Conservation and Management from Unity University. She has 20+ experience in spinning and dyeing as well as knitting, crocheting and weaving. She's spent the last 5 years in pollinator studies, including her masters course, Cornell's Master Beekeepers course, as well as working for commercial native plants nurseries and apiaries. Through her education she has focused on ways that our textile industry impacts our natural environment and ways to improve the ways we source, process and market textiles in a method that can reduce harm or even benefit native pollinators. Aja's teaching style is engaging and hands-on and she takes care to create a learning environment that is a safe place for all. She raises sheep and bees as well as sells her handspun yarn out of her farm in Orwell, VT.