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The Autumn Cauldron: Natural Dye Rituals for the Fall Harvest
October 17-October 25
Capture autumn leaves and flowers on fabric in community ritual and explore your local fibershed.
10/17 3:00pm-7:00pm – Death and Dyeing: Intro to Ecoprinting Community Ritual Experience
Free, no attendance cap.
Come learn basic principles of bundle dyeing, aka ecoprinting, which captures images and colors of leaves and flowers on fabric, by helping create a collective art textile. We’ll imprint a large shroud with the shapes and colors of the fall fiber garden that will feature in this year’s 5th annual All Souls River Ritual and Procession, in which all who come honor and grieve the dead and celebrate life. We will close with a potluck Ancestor Feast.
10/18 12:00pm-4:00pm – Collective Pot of Gold: Intro to Natural Dyeing and Renewal Dye Pot
Sliding Scale $20-$30, up to 30 people
Learn the basic whys and hows of natural dyeing from mordanting to finished piece. We’ll tour the Green Anchors fiber gardens and use our collective last harvest to create a dye cauldron of fall golds, centering Marigold at its apex as a strong color plant with protective and powerful energetics, and discussing its multi-cultural magical uses for connecting with the spirit world. Participants will go home with a ritually renewed vintage handkerchief, dyed in our pot of gold through our hands, as a talisman of the rebirth of this ancestral practice.
10/25 12:00-6:00pm – Sacred Harvest: EcoPrinting Plant Talismans on Silk
Sliding scale workshop $125-$150, up to 15 people
Capture the shapes, colors, and textures of this beautiful and poignant season on silk and wool. We’ll commune with the fiber gardens in their autumn transition, selecting leaves and flowers for printing, learning the best plants to use in bundle-dyeing, special mordanting techniques for this dye process, and bundling, boiling and steaming methods. Each student will take home a printed raw silk bandana and charmeuse scarf, along with written materials to help them repeat the process. Textiles provided. We’ll end with a sunset fire ritual, eating from the garden and welcoming the Dark.
