dye class

It seems oh so long ago now, but in November I taught a class on Natural Dyeing at Etsy Labs and I found a few snaps of the class at work:

It looks like all of the classes at the Labs are ending this month and moving over to 3rd Ward (which has an awesome space, I visited this weekend!). So it looks like today will be my last class at Etsy.....but....stay tuned, I expect to have some classes set up with 3rd Ward soon. woo!

more prada love

Just a short one for today....I hope to post my Round Up over the weekend, and then more new, less internetty, things for a while. I'm burned out!

Miuccia Prada wrote a (very) short piece in Wired in June of 2003 about the space around the body. Prada did a raincoat that changed from transparent to opaque when it gets wet:



Somehow this tech-y piece feels nice. Sweet.

Red

A really lovely post about color & dye on Coutorture. I feel like I often just skim through this site (too much "what's hot!" stuff usually), but when there's something good.....

This post was written by Entwinements and she mention a couple of good books: Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments and Prehistoric Textiles. First off, Prehistoric Textiles looks amazing! She has also turned me on to the Dyers List which looks like it will be a fabulous resource. And finally, I found her own blog, Entwinements, where you can see her beautiful Shibori work, one of which is the picture here. I also discovered her name is Karen K. Brito.