Saturday / Oct 19th / 11-3pm
Rain Date: Sunday
Lunch Served

We welcome back Poliana Danila for the 3rd time this season! This workshop will teach the bundle dyeing technique with botanicals as well as shibori for colorful finished textiles created with nature's bounty. In her own words...

"Do we realize how blessed we are to get such a wide array of colors from plants? Beautiful colors that come from Allium Cepa, Indigofera Tinctoria, Persea Americana, Haematoxylum Campechiamum, Tagetes Patula, Rubia Cordifolia. Communities sustain life. There is no better place to learn the art of making, the art of loving, healing than in community."

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Please join us in learning the beautiful art of natural bundle dyeing and shibori techniques! In this four hour workshop, you'll gain an understanding of how to work with natural dyes as you explore the process of bundle dyeing. In this introductory class, we will cover:

• The basics of natural dyeing
• Introduction to natural dye plants and mordants
• Introduction to protein-based and cellulose-based fibers
• Overview of natural dyestuffs including onion skins, cosmos, fresh and dried flowers
• How to bundle dye on silk and cotton
• How to prepare fabric, place the dyestuffs, bundle the fabric
• How to steam the fabric on a stovetop.

Each student will leave the workshop with two dyed pieces. Please wear clothes you aren't afraid will get wet or dyed. Aprons are recommended!

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About the Instructor

Poliana Danilo is a landscape designer, fiber artist, and educator who loves working with what the natural world gifts us. Originally from Romania, she grew up watching her parents and grandparents work in gardens, teach in schools, and spin/weave with wool from their sheep. Poliana’s exquisite hand-woven brooms were inspired by her grandmother, Ioana, who was an avid weaver who used a large floor loom to make unique tapestries. She has a bachelors and masters degree in Landscape Design & Horticulture and has studied weaving, knotting, plant dyeing, and handcrafted broom making with well-known artists at fiber studios in the Textile Art Center in Brooklyn/Manhattan, Fiber Craft Studio in Spring Valley and Upstate NY. She has taught her workshops at the New York Botanical Garden, the Roxbury Arts Group, and Mohonk Mountain House to name a few venues.

We are so pleased to invite you all to this workshop that we hope will inspire a greater connection to nature and each other. Through the act of basket weaving side-by-side, Poliana's workshop participants share stories, laugh, cry and remind us all of how communities sustain life and always have.

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Lunch

Of course it wouldn't be a Ravenwood event without the addition of a delicious meal. Guests will break for lunch selections from our cafe menu including:

~ Coffee & Tea

~ Iced Beverages

~ Farm Stand Salad

~ Savory Pastry

~ Sweet Treat

We hope you'll join us and help spread the word!