Learn to imprint beautiful plant designs from nature and create artistic, multi-colored backgrounds on silk and wool. Elevate your ecoprinting skills with a variety of fun techniques that mimic stained glass patterns or kaleidoscopes. Students will discover how to enhance natural plant designs and develop rich, vibrant backgrounds. By the end of the day, you’ll take home both a hemmed Habatoi silk scarf and an unhemmed woven wool scarf, each ecoprinted in stunning colors, along with the color bundles you used and the knowledge to continue ecoprinting using nature's resources. *Students Should Bring o 1 Gallon empty water jug to use as a weight (can be filled at class) o Leaves from their area such as oak, maples, rose, hickory, sumac and interesting weeds. Fun additional plants (usually store bought) are live eucalyptus and flat flowers such as daises. No thick or woody plants or waxy leaves such as camellia or magnolia. Leaves can be fresh, pressed or dry. Dry leaves need to be re-hydrated 30 minutes prior to using them. o Notebook & Pen o Apron *Class price includes materials fee Theresa Brown M Theresa Brown is a professional artist whose long art career embraces many areas of the Arts. She uses natural dyes and low impact synthetic dyes and merges them into unique, beautiful designs on silk, wool, paper and leather. She turns her transformed work into artisanal clothing, accessories, and art. Her articles and designs in the fiber arts have appeared in international publications such as "No Serial Number" and "Belle Armoire".   She has a line of instructional PDF’s on ecoprinting techniques and is the first instructor to teach Ecoprinting on Leather in the US.