Indigo Shibori with Amelia Poole
10am-4pm
$95.00- includes all materials
Explore techniques of traditional Japanese resist dyeing. Learn binding, stitching, and pole wrapping techniques. Experiment on cotton and silk cloth, make one finished silk scarf and cotton yardage perfect for your own fiber work like quilting or other sewing projects.
Indigo – Indigo is a natural blue dye derived from the plant Indigofera tinctoria and other pigment bearing species. Indigo has been used as a colorant for nearly 5,500 years. The dye is extracted from the leaves through a lengthy process of soaking and fermentation, drying and grinding. When the cloth or fiber is removed from the dye vat it changes, as if by magic, from yellow-green through green and turquoise to blue. Multiple dips in the dye vat are required to create dark shades.
Bring a bag lunch and scissors, beverages and snacks provided.
Amelia Poole holds a degree in Textile Design and Construction from the Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Farnham, Surrey, UK.
This workshop is generously supported by the Maine Community Foundation, Maine Expansion Arts Fund. Scholarships are available please submit a letter to request assistance based on need and interest in the workshop to artsworthstudios@gmail.com by Jan. 29th. to be considered.
As always, this event will be filled with fiery creative energy, featuring demonstrations in glassblowing, blacksmithing, and torchworking from 10am-5pm. This year our Fire Gathering will also include an Artisan and Specialty Food marketplace featuring local artisans from 10-4. Items include local sourdough breads, local farm produce, knit hats, organic frozen blueberries, cards, calendars, wreaths, fine jewelry, felted ornaments, blacksmithed candlesticks, glass beads, and more. It’s a great opportunity for last minute gift shopping that helps support local talent. Evening music will be provided by Rose Hips and Ships from 7pm-10pm, a New York City band with locally grown musician Katherine Perkins. All are welcome!
Every Saturday November 21 & 28th. through December 5 & 12th
$40
This experience allows you to work with hot glass up close, while staying on the cool end of the glassblowing equipment at all times. You’ll start by choosing the glass colors you want to use in your ornament, and then partner with our professional glassblowers to create it. You will shape the ornament by blowing air through the moving blowpipe as the glassblower guides the glass with special tools. After you and the glassblower have shaped your ornament, it is removed from the blowpipe, a glass loop is added and it is placed in an oven to begin an overnight slow cooling process. Ornaments are ready for pick up the following week or may be shipped for an additional fee within the US and Canada.
Call 207-664-0222 to register-you will be scheduled to arrive during a one hour time slot.
When you get to our hot shop, please check in at the front counter. There you will receive some information on color choices and we will verify any payment info you may have given us to reserve your spot.
You can expect to spend at least an hour in the shop, as we make our way to your turn. Making a blown glass ornament is a swift process. The glass maker must work with the blower (you) to both expand the glass to it’s largest and thinnest capacity while also squeezing it to create the very smallest of openings at the crack off point of the blow pipe. By it’s very nature making an ornament happens quickly but it is so memorable and dramatic! It’s the perfect introduction to how hot glass works. We are really looking forward to sharing this with you.
Age Restriction –14 years or older, under 18 accompanied by an adult.
Watch Ken and Linda Perrin with their team of glass blowers create blown glass pumpkins right before your very eyes. The studio of Atlantic Art Glass will be turned into a glass pumpkin patch as the molten glass is pulled from the furnace, blown and hand formed on the end of a blowpipe. The glass pumpkin patch charms visitors of all ages. The gallery will be filled with autumn inspired work for sale. Every Saturday in October!
