SUMMER BATIK WORKSHOP
Friday July 25th – Sunday July 27th
1-5 pm - $300
8 people max
Learn the Art of Batik and create beautiful unique pieces of wearable art, personable décor for your home or a fine art piece.
We will learn to paint with hot beeswax using traditional Tjanting tools and paint brushes,
and we’ll do the “submersion” dye method with our batik using Procion dyes.
I will provide large pieces of cloth and t-shirts, but feel free toupcycle your own clothing, curtains, pillow cases, or some thrift store finds!
I recommend all material be 95-100% cotton or any other non-synthetic material ie; linen, hemp, silk, rayon.
Material should be natural, white or a light color.
We will end each day by fully submerging our material into a dye bath for 15-30 minutes before batching ie; taking the material out and sealing it in a plastic bag to set for 12 hours.
We will need to take our batches home to finish setting, then put in a short cold rinse spin cycle in the washer or rinse out with a hose in a sink or bucket, then line dry in time for the next day’s class.
I am willing to take your batch and do this for you if need be!
We will add a second layer of wax to our pieces and submerge them in a dye bath of a different color, and we may begin new projects! You’re getting the hang of it now!
On the third and last day we will boil the wax out of our completed projects and enjoy the surprising and satisfying art that emerges from underneath! Projects still in progress will go in a last dye bath and batch, that you will take home with you for your own boil out. You’re an expert now!
Be mindful Batik involves painting with hot wax, working with permanent dyes, and boiling water.
Please bring your own apron or coverup.
An-Magrith Erlandsen is a graduate from Cornish College of the Arts and is the creator of Tarot of the Pomegranate. She is an art teacher, videographer and producer in Seattle.
As an art student in the 90’s An-Magrith traveled to Indonesia; Papua New Guinea, Bali and Java, where she first discovered the art of Batik, but it took a few decades before she got into it herself via a zoom class during covid!
Now she sells her batik at local boutiques in the Seattle area and at Pomegranate Batik.com
She has shown her Batik fine art at Push/Pull gallery in Seattle.