1 March 2012 – Craft Punk, the Powerhouse Museum’s crafty weekend of hands-on workshops led by fashion and design industry experts returns on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 March with a program that’s simply ‘to dye for’!
Through booked workshops and drop-in sessions craft enthusiasts can learn beautiful dyeing techniques and funky silk-screen patterns. Update or create a new garment and learn dyeing textile techniques that are sensitive to the environment and guaranteed to demonstrate your creative achievements. Or try your hand at designing your own tea towel using some funky fabric-ink stamps and rubbing blocks.
Craft Punk: To Dye For is the latest in a series of weekend programs aimed at harnessing the creative energy of a vast community of people crafting beautiful and edgy work. The program offers a space where people can meet, make and share skills. Be inspired to start a new project, learn a new skill, tackle a tricky pattern or just rekindle your love of making. Craft Punk is all about giving you the tools to take making into your own hands!
Dye-ception screen printing workshop: Up-cycle your garments
17 and 18 March, 10.30am – 12.30pm and 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Age 14 years and over, beginners welcome
$45 adult, $40 Powerhouse member (includes Museum admission)
Bookings essential at powerhousemuseum.com
Fashion designer Donna Sgro, will use her quirky trompe l’oeil silk-screen pattern range to show you how to value-add to your favorite garments. Learn the basic principles of silk-screen printing using pre-prepared photo-sensitive stencil designs as well as how to customise screen patterns for maximum effect. Silver foil application to garments is also taught. Bring your own garments to up-cycle i.e. jeans, shirts, t-shirts, dresses. All materials and equipment supplied.
Donna Sgro is a proponent of the slow fashion movement and lectures at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her work was showcased at Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo in 2009 and she was recently part of the inspiring Trash Fashion exhibition at the London Science Museum.
Dye-linquent Shibori workshop: dyeing and up-cycling garments
17 and 18 March, 10.30am – 12.30pm and 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Age 14 years and over, beginners welcome
$45 adult, $40 Powerhouse member (includes Museum admission)
Bookings essential at powerhousemuseum.com
Karen Davis and Pepa Martin take you through the paces of Shibori dyeing with a twist. Learn the slow art of creating beautiful textiles through folding, twining, and much more. Pepa and Karen will demonstrate how to prepare the synthetic indigo dye vat and textiles using four techniques – Perspex and wooden shape resist, Yanagi (Pleat and rope), Mokume (Pleat and stitch) and Ashi (pole and rope).
Bring your own natural fibre garments such as cotton, linen, hemp or silk to dye with indigo. All materials and equipment supplied including a length of textile (large scarf size) for dyeing.
Karen and Pepa are the driving force behind their company Shibori, where they have created the Dye Da Vida range of boutique fabric dyes, cultivating a new generation of free thinking crafters. They have worked alongside some of Australia’s best known architects and interior designers on recent interior design projects using their Shibori dyed textiles.
DROP-IN ACTIVITY
Dye hard a tea towel: fabric ink stamping and crayon rubbing
17 and 18 March, 10am – 4pm
Age 10 years and over – children must be accompanied by an adult.
Free with Museum admission. No bookings required.
A bumper selection of cool fabric stamp designs and rubbing plates will be available for you to create a funky tea towel that will be a knock-out near your white goods. You can also bring your own garments to up-cycle. All materials and equipment supplied including one cotton tea towel (stock limited) or fabric for each participant.
Further media information, images or interviews:
Hayley Gallant, Powerhouse Museum
Tel: 02 9217 0169 / 0413 985 277 or email: hayleyg@phm.gov.au
