Street Flora

Date: Saturday 11th September
Time: 2pm
Duration: 2-2.5 hours
Place: The Rockfield Centre
Cost: £10

Tatakizome is the most direct technique to capture colour from plants onto fabric.

Our workshop will be an ideal introduction to our series of workshops and demonstrations about using plants to colour textiles.

Basically, leaves and flowers are placed between two layers of fabric and hammered until the coloured juices from the plants transfer onto the fabric. A degree of skill is required for the crispest clearest images but everyone can produce colourful results.

Inspired by the Eco-Creative Cluster Conversation with Fernanda Mascarenhas, and particularly her description of using the plants which grow in cracks in the pavements of her city, the Oban Street Flora Tatakizome project uses plants which grow spontaneously in the streets of our town. It celebrates and values the ‘weeds’ that are a mostly un-noticed and often unwanted part of our everyday surroundings.

Participants in the Oban workshop will have the opportunity to learn the Tatakizome technique and will create two or three panels on cotton fabric.  Visit to the dye garden at the end of the workshop.