Lust for Rust & Mark Making With Needle & Thread workshop with Mirka Knaster
Lust for Rust & Mark Making With Needle & Thread workshop with Mirka Knaster
Class Title/Teacher: Lust for Rust & Mark Making With Needle & Thread with Mirka Knaster
Tuition: $190/Members $210/Non-Members
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This is a two part class held on two dates a week apart.
Session 1 - Saturday September 6, 2025 1:30pm - 5:30pm
Session 2 - Sunday September 14, 2025 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Place: Pacific Textile Arts classroom
Class Description: Rust is an eco-friendly, cost-free, and easy medium for dyeing fabric, leather, or paper. Any found object made of iron or steel can corrode to produce iron oxide, which results in interesting, often unexpected imprints. Colors can range from taupes to oranges and browns or transform already colored fabric into other hues.
In the first half-day session, we will repurpose used cloth (cotton and linen are best, silk and wool are not) by putting it through the rust process.
During the week between the first and second sessions, we will experiment at home with how long cloth remains in the rust dye bath to achieve different depths of color.
In the second half-day session, we will examine the shapes and colors that were produced, according to length of time spent getting rusted, and determine what kind of stitching will best enhance them. Our creations can be framed, adhered to stiff interfacing, added to quilts, combined with other artworks, or integrated into clothing.