Class Description
This class will explore the world of cyanotype printing on a fabric medium. This Victorian age technique allows the student to create landscape scenes, abstract designs and negative images of various objects in a beautiful white and blue print. This fabric then can be used by the participants in sewing projects, as patches or hung up as home decor. We will use UV lights duriing this process. Students will also have the opportunity to send a high contrast photo to the instructor to be printed ahead of time on film to use as a negative.
October 8th 6:00-7:30
Location-Textile studio
Cost- $25
Minimum class size- 2
Age- 7+ (all children must be accompanied by an adult)
Registration:
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.
The registration fee reserves your spot in the class and will not be refunded for no-shows. In the event that the class does not meet the minimum class size, your registration fee will be refunded.
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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.