Exploring Fibre Reactive Dyes
Exploring Fibre Reactive Dyes
In this masterclass series, Claire Benn demystifies the processes and materials used to achieve the best results. Silk screening, gradations, colour charts, mark making plus various dyeing methods (bucket, table and washing machine) are all explored within this comprehensive creative series.
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In this masterclass series, Claire Benn demystifies the processes and materials used to achieve the best results. Silk screening, gradations, colour charts, mark making plus various dyeing methods (bucket, table and washing machine) are all explored within this comprehensive creative series.
Fibre Reactive Dyes are a great resource for producing results that are colourfast and very washable. With a basic understanding of how things work, you will begin to see better results in your projects. For beginners who want to achieve great results from using fibre reactive dyes with both cloth (natural fibres) and other natural raw materials such as paper, reeds, caning (or even wood) as well as experienced fiber artists who want to improve their practice when working with fibre reactive dyes.
One of the most comprehensive workshops on working with fibre reactive (Procion MX) dyes available.
Comprehensive and chock full of tips and tricks to get the results you are after. Claire explores the materials you will be working with in a variety of workshops designed to demystify the processes and materials used to achieve the best results. Silk screening, gradations, colour charts, mark making, and both bucket, table and washing machine dye methods are covered.
Over 7 hours of detailed video instruction, recipe cards, dye equivalent references + 100-page Recipes and Tips Masterclass Pack designed to get you well on your way to making fabulous cloth for quilts, wearables, home furnishings and more.
Key Learnings:
- Workshop Introduction
- Cloth & Preparation for Dyeing
- Ingredients for Fibre Reactive Dyeing
- Bucket Dyeing: Low vs. High Water Immersion Dyeing
- Tray Dyeing for Smooth and Textured Finishes
- Dyeing a Serial Gradation
- Dyeing in the Washing Machine & Over-dyeing
- Making Liquid and Thickened Dye Paints
Plus loads of surface design and colour development exercises including:
- Working Black Dye on White Fabric
- Fundamentals of Screen Printing with Thickened Dyes
- Scraping Demonstration
- Dry Brush Technique
- Understanding Colour Theory: The Colour Tartan
- Procion MX Colour Mixing
- Secondary & Complex Colours
- Black, Neutrals & Shades of Gray
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Sessions Overview
Session 1: Understanding and Prepping your Cloth
Session 1: Understanding and Prepping your Cloth
In this introductory session, allow Claire Benn to develop your understanding of the process of working with natural fibres, the burn test, the relevance of fibre weight and weave structure as well as how to correctly scour to prepare the cloth for dyeing.
Session 2: Understanding the Ingredients
Session 2: Understanding the Ingredients
It’s incredibly important to understand the ingredients your working within this process. You’ll be taught the key umbrella terms that are used in this craft alongside gaining knowledge of the variables within Fibre Reactive Dyes and those ingredients related to it.
Session 3: Bucket Basics pt.1
Session 3: Bucket Basics pt.1
Be introduced to salt-based vat dyeing in the third session of the series. Compare the differences between high water immersion (for a smooth even colour) and low water immersion, which can produce a smooth finish or a little texture. Claire will also discuss dyeing for texture and how to look at the results.
Session 4: Bucket Basics, pt.2
Session 4: Bucket Basics, pt.2
Having been introduced to the world of bucket dyeing in Session 3, you’ll build upon those skills to learn about tray dyeing (the basics and looking at the results), dyeing a serial gradation and looking at those results as well as dyeing in a washing machine and the results of this as well as over-dyeing. The session will be rounded off with Claire’s expertise on batching and rinsing.
Session 5: Benchwork Basics – Dyes as Paints
Session 5: Benchwork Basics – Dyes as Paints
To begin, Claire will teach you the importance of noting your key ingredients. She’ll then guide you through the process of her soda soaking recipe and how to store soda-soaked cloth. You’ll then turn to consider chemical water and print paste, how to make liquid dyes and thickened dyes, as well as how to alter the value and consistency of dye pains. Claire will conclude this session by taking you through the process cycle for dyes as paints.
Session 6: Surface Design using Dye Paints, pt.1
Session 6: Surface Design using Dye Paints, pt.1
In this practical session you will set up your station and set to work – creating a black on white surface design project.
Session 7: Surface Design using Dye Paints, pt.2
Session 7: Surface Design using Dye Paints, pt.2
Following on from your interactive work in Session 6 you will further your repertoire by considering the basics of screen printing and breakdown printing, as well as mono-printing, using thermofax screens and scraping to over-dye your cloth.
Session 8: Surface Design using Dye Paints, pt.3
Session 8: Surface Design using Dye Paints, pt.3
Join Claire in this session as she considers further experimental methods to surface design using dye paints. You’ll be introduced to the designs that can be made when working with dry brush, cola pens and montana markers, as well as working wet on wet, batching your cloth and rinsing, troubleshooting & back staining.
Session 9: The Basics of Colour Mixing, pt. 1
Session 9: The Basics of Colour Mixing, pt. 1
In this penultimate session, Claire will take you through the basics of colour mixing. She will guide you to make tartan, to use the colour star to mix secondary colours and to mix complex colours.
Session 10: The Basics of Colour Mixing, pt. 2
Session 10: The Basics of Colour Mixing, pt. 2
Following on from Session 9’s learnings, you’ll explore working with neutrals, different grey matters and the layering of multiple processes. Claire will round-off the series with her top tips on over-dyeing and where to take your dyeing projects from here.
Materials & Preparation
A comprehensive, in-depth Masterclass Pack is provided upon purchase to this course. Course members will also receive access to a dyes list and a bench guide (a shorter version of the masterclass pack to be used whilst making).
Please note these materials are not included with purchase of this class, the following materials will need to be bought separately.
Meet the Master: Claire Benn
Claire Benn is an artist who works in mixed media: textiles, raw earth pigments, natural dyes, acrylic paint and thread. Her work is abstract, reductive, contemporary, quiet and very tactile; apparently simple yet engaged with a complexity of ideas and practices. Her inspiration is drawn from wilderness landscapes such as the Atacama Desert, New Mexico and the Arctic.
Claire Benn’s work has been exhibited in galleries on an international scale, including:
- USA 'Material Pulses; Eight Viewpoints' Ohio (2016), ‘Unfurled' Nebraska (2007), ‘Never Static’ Minneapolis (2006).
- Europe The Florence Biennale (2007) ‘European Art Quilt’ touring Europe and the USA (2004, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2014,2017), 'Of Place & Time' in Germany (2015).
- UK ‘Creative Link’ Grace Barrand Design Centre (2005), 'Committed to Cloth' London & Harrogate (2004), 'Complex Cloth' (London & Harrogate (2004), 'Lines, Rows, Rhythm & Repetition' Birmingham (2016) and with ViewSeven at the Menier Gallery, London (2013, 2015, 2017).
In addition to the public exhibition programme, her works feature in both commercial and private collections.
Find out more about Claire Benn:
Website: clairebenn.com
Instagram: @herquietmaterials
Twitter: @QuietMaterials
Facebook: @HerQuietMatierals
Pinterest: HerQuietMaterials
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Galli Creative produces educational workshops focused on textile, stitch, surface design and encaustic arts. Their teaching format is self-guided featuring some of the leading art instructors in the world. Most instructors are published with DVDs and books in print, and many have achieved the highest recognition in their field.
In addition to producing educational workshops, Galli Creative produces archival educational video for leading museums. Their documentary film work has taken them from Southeast Asia to Latin America to Europe with an emphasis on fashion, creativity, sustainability and restorative methods.
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I booked the on-demand dying class with Claire Benn, which was very good (she is an excellent, clear tutor). These sessions have filled a big void during the last year!