Saturday, May 17; 10am to 4pm

Instructor: Tracy Flanagan

Transform a favorite garment or vintage linen with ecoprinting. Using natural dyes, local foliage, heat, and water you will learn to print garments and linens through multiple bundling and folding techniques.

Learn to:

- Collect foliage that will print on cotton and linen cloth

- Prepare upcycled linens and garments for successful dyeing and printing

- Lay out botanicals, mask, and bundle garments for successful printing

- Select leaves to create interesting design and color combinations

- Transform a favorite stained garmant into a wearable art piece.

Requirement: Prior experience with ecoprinting. This class will briefly review basic principles of botanical printing and explore methods for ecoprinting upcycled garments and linens.

As a textile artist, writer, and physician, Tracy believes that hand marked fabric and cloth is ‘everyday art’ that can wrap and heal the body and spirit. Throughout her life she has rebirthed cloth with thread, color, and design, as quilts, garments, and fabric collage. Using natural dye products extracted from the earth and plants, she breathes new life into these designed cloths, transforming them into beautiful articles to be touched, worn, and gazed upon by their owners. www.tftextileart.com

Fee: Members $150; Non-members $175; Additional $25 materials fee paid directly to instructor (includes fabrics, tannins, dyes, doweld, string, and various papers)

Where: Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, 1210 Fifth Avenue, San Rafael (at B Street)