Please joint the Tamalpais Weavers’ Guild at the Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Bl, Ross. We are so pleased to entice Linda away from her studio to speak.
LINDA HARTSHORN has created hundreds of yards of beautiful textiles over the last twenty-five years. Her specialty is incorporating unique dyework into her handwoven fabrics. She teaches weaving at The Ink People Center for the Arts in Eureka and is a winner of the Victor Thomas Jacoby Award for Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers.
Program description:
Natural Dyes and Handwoven Textiles
Linda Hartshorn will illustrate the uses of natural dyeing in handwoven textiles with samples and slides. Her wide repertoire of techniques includes ikat, woven shibori, paste resist and painted warp, all which can be done with natural dyes. She will show how these beautiful dyes enhance her work and the textiles of other artists and other cultures.
http://www.lindahartshorn.com
