Natural Fibre Dyeing and Basket Weaving Saturday 17 December 2022

Description

Peppermint Ridge Farm will be hosting a special full day workshop with renowned Aboriginal traditional basket weaver Cassie Leatham and Textile artist and educator Jess Gannaway.

The workshop will run from 10.00am to 3.30pm and includes a bush food flavoured vegetarian lunch provided by Peppermint Ridge Farm. An optional guided tour of the native foods forest will be available at lunch time. Please advise of any dietary requirements.

Mungan Bikk (to weave on country) with Cassie Leatham.

Learn traditional techniques in basket weaving, wrap weaving techniques with stories of history in Aboriginal weaving and connection to country. Cassie will provide all weaving materials and share her knowledge. She will be using eco dyed Pandanus and natural fibres.

Cassie is from the Taungurung people from the Kulin Nation. She is an Indigenous artist, master weaver, traditional dancer, bushtukka woman and educator.

Eco-dyeing with Jess Gannaway

Jess is an artist and educator who works primarily in textiles, experimenting with slow eco-dyeing and botanical printing techniques that harness processes of rust and decay to create unpredictable patterns on fabric. In this workshop, Jessica shares her love of eucalypts and the wonder of experimenting with plants in textile design. You will learn some basic techniques for dyeing with eucalypts and native bushfoods. You will bind textiles and plant matter together to produce a dye bundle, which will be processed through heat in a pot of eucalyptus dye after the workshop, and returned to you by mail.