25346 New! Eco Printing with an Iron Blanket
Class | Available
Registration Deadline: 10/18
Instructors Mary Ann Proia and Jean Cease will introduce you to Eco Printing, a technique that captures the beauty of nature on cloth. We will imprint local botanicals on fabric using this new method to produce crisp, and fast images (that’s light-fast, not “quick”). Students may bring an extra T-shirt to to dye in class if desired.
Bring lunch or purchase locally.
AGE: 14 and up
**This Class has a special tuition rate for children. At the top of the page, select Youth Discount. At checkout, a child's tuition will be discounted to $20. The student must be registered as a child in your account profile to receive the discount.
MATERIALS FEE: $25 paid to instructor for fabric, including silk or wool, handouts, chemicals, and botanicals.
Dye classes require the use of personal protective equipment. Students are required to provide their own N95 or KN95 respirator. Students may choose to provide their own safety glasses or use those available at WaFAC. All students are required to adhere to the Dye Studio Safety Precautions.
Mary Ann Proia
I began playing with fibers as a child. I learned to crochet from my grandmother and to sew from my mother. I remember stitching doll clothes together by manually running my mother’s sewing machine. (I was too short to reach the pedal.) Later, when I entered Nazareth college for Art, I discovered weaving and dyeing and have been at it ever since. Along the way, I have studied with Susan Rowley, Michele Wipplinger, Kathy Hattori, as well as other great weavers and dyers.
I have shown my work here in Rochester, Seattle, Las Vegas, Colorado, and even Italy. I have taught weaving in Antigua with partners of the Americas. I recently receive the HGA Certificate Of Excellence in Dyeing.
I enjoy passing on the knowledge I’ve learned to students then watching them take it and make it their own.
Jeanne Cease
As a life long sewer, knitter & tactile person, fiber in all shapes and colors has drawn me in. My weaving journey began many years ago when I took a beginner weaving class from Joyce Robards at the Museum and Science Center. She was pointing to a drawdown on the board, I believe it was written in Greek. However with her natural teaching abilities, she led me to a simple dressed table loom, encouraged me to "do this, then do that”.....I was hooked. I was making fabric!
It was with a gathering of a small group of yarn lovers 25 years ago, the Weaver's and Spinners Guild of Naples was formed. As a founding member of that Guild, we placed bulk orders for yarn, and I then realized I could own and use more yarn faster than I could knit.....the rest is history.
Love of learning [and retirement] allowed me to join the Weavers Guild of Rochester.That has opened many new doors to endless avenues and acquaintances with a current passion for natural dyeing. Sharing the little I know is a joy, learning from & with others a blessing.