Craft Punk: To Dye For

Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 March

Create beautiful dyeing techniques and funky silk-screen patterns with luscious applied textures at Craft Punk, with hands-on workshops led by fashion and design industry experts. Book a workshop to update or create a new garment and learn to dye for textile techniques that are sensitive to the environment and guaranteed to demonstrate your creative achievements.

Join our drop-in session and try your hand at designing your own tea towel using funky fabric-ink stamps, pens and rubbing blocks. Craft Punk is all about giving you the tools to take making into your own hands!

Drop-in workshop
Dye Hard a Tea Towel: fabric ink stamping and crayon rubbing
17, 18 March, 10.00am – 4.00pm
Free with Museum admission. No bookings required. Beginners welcome.
Ages 10 years and over (children must be accompanied by an adult).

A bumper selection of cool fabric pens, stamp designs and rubbing plates will be available for you to create a funky tea towel that will look a knock-out near your white goods. You can also bring your own garment to up-cycle. All materials/ equipment supplied including one cotton tea towel (stock limited) or piece of fabric per participant/family.

Booked workshops
Dye-linquent Shibori workshop: Dyeing and up-cycling garments
17, 18 March, 10.30-12.30 & 1.30-3.30
Beginners welcome (age 14 years and over)
$45 adult, $40 Powerhouse member (includes Museum admission)
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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.  Karen and Pepa will demonstrate how to prepare the synthetic indigo dye vat and textiles using 4 techniques. Bring your natural fibre garments such as cotton, linen, hemp or silk to dye with indigo.  Old clothes should be worn as you will be using indigo dyes. All materials/equipment supplied including a length of voile (large scarf size). Find out more.

Karen and Pepa are the driving-force behind Shibori, where they have created the Dye Da Vida range of boutique fabric dyes, cultivating a new generation of free thinking crafters.  Shibori have worked alongside some of Australia’s best known architects and interior designers on projects using their Shibori dyed textiles.

Dye-ception screen printing workshop: Up-cycle your garments
17, 18 March, 10.30-12.30 & 1.30-3.30
Beginners welcome (age 14 years and over)
$45 adult, $40 Powerhouse member (includes Museum admission)
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Fashion designer Donna Sgro, will use her quirky trompe l’oeil screen patterns to show you how to up-cycle your garments. Learn the basics of silk-screen printing using prepared photo-stencil designs.  Donna will demonstrate different stenciling techniques to suit your garments.  Participants have a choice of a number of detailing patterns.  Learn how to applying silver foil to garments. Bring garments to up-cycle i.e. jeans, shirts, t-shirts, dresses. Old clothes should be worn as you will be using water-based inks. All materials/equipment supplied. Find out more.

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. 


Shibori


Donna Sgro