Indigo and Natural Dyeing

Indigo and Natural Dyeing

Summer Youth | Available

286 Whisconier Rd, PO Box 122 Brookfield, CT 06804 United States
River Room
Ages 11-17
Monday, August 4, 2025-Friday, August 8, 2025
9:00 AM-12:00 PM on Mon Tue Wed Th Fri
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$279.00
$275.00

Indigo and Natural Dyeing

Summer Youth | Available

Each afternoon students will learn about the magical art and science of Indigo Dyeing and Shibori, a traditional Japanese method of creating patterns on fiber. 

Indigo dyeing is amazing to watch!! When you remove the fibers from the dye bath, first, they are a greenish-yellowy color but then they change to a deep blue right before your very eyes!
Like magic – but art and science! 

Ryan will also include Natural Dyeing during this week. Students will learn to extract dyes and apply them to fabric. Covered will be the fundamental techniques of preparing materials for dyeing, identifying plants to forage, easy and reliable dye plants to add to your family garden.

  • There is a $4 registration fee included in tuition.
    Members will have the $4 deducted from tuition.

    This class is held in the River Room Studio which is beneath the Gallery.
    There will be a set of steps to walk down.

    Please note that classes at Brookfield Craft Center must meet a minimum number of 2 registrations for the class to run. Students will be notified within a week's notice whether their class will be held. If the class is canceled due to low enrollment, students may request to be transferred to another class or be refunded in full.

Scails, Ryan
Ryan Scails

Ryan Scails is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines the nuances of materiality
within the built world and how intentional shifts in details can give humans context in
ways that confront the limits of their bodies. By using fiber to create hyper specific
structural relationships, his work highlights the potential in substantive engagements
between the human body and our environment. In a manner that leans heavily on the
sequential harmony of physical labor his work seeks to foreground pre-colonial
technologies by riffing on fractured schematics, glyphs, and vernacular tools to sift
through the imperial aggregate. His most recent exhibitions include RAW at Eric
Firestone Gallery (New York City, NY), To Prepare A Place For You at Temple
Contemporary (Philadelphia, PA), Martin's End at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Philadelphia,
PA), Graphite Stew at Upper Market Gallery (San Francisco, CA). Ryan has attended
residencies at MASSMoCA, Textile Arts Center - Brooklyn, and the John Michael Kohler
Arts Center Arts/Industry program.