Echoes on Cloth and Paper

$795.00
October 22-24, 2026, 
Wichita-Ks

Layers of Nature: Eco-Dyeing, Eco-Printing, Painting, Image Transfer & Slow Stitch

This workshop is a journey through layered surface-making, where natural processes meet expressive mark-making. Participants will explore how to transform paper and textiles using rust dying, eco-dyeing, eco-printing, hand painting, image transfer techniques, and slow stitch.

The focus is on building depth through layers—where color, texture, image, and gesture accumulate slowly over time, like sediment or memory held within a surface. Each technique becomes part of a larger conversation between control and chance, nature and intervention, presence and trace.

We begin with rust dyeing, where discarded materials, vinegar, and water stain and transform the surface, creating atmospheric backgrounds that feel like weathered memories. From there, eco-printing introduces the direct imprint of nature—leaves, stems, and flowers pressing themselves onto fabric and paper, leaving behind delicate silhouettes and organic rhythms.

The course will also introduce methods for transferring images onto fabric, allowing participants to incorporate photographs, drawings, and personal imagery into their work.

As the surface evolves, hand painting adds a more expressive layer. Pigments flow, resist, and interrupt the natural marks, introducing gesture, movement, and personal interpretation. Image transfer brings another dimension, embedding fragments of photographs, drawings, or found imagery into the material, merging narrative with texture.

Slow stitch completes and unifies the process. Through simple, mindful stitching, participants respond to the surface in a quiet, meditative way—drawing thread across layers, binding fragments together, and adding a tactile rhythm that echoes time itself. Stitch becomes both mark and memory, connecting what is seen with what is felt.

Throughout the workshop, the work evolves slowly and intuitively. Surfaces are not rushed but built through accumulation, reflection, and experimentation. Each layer holds its own voice, yet together they form a cohesive landscape of material exploration.

This is a space for observation, patience, and discovery—where making becomes a dialogue with nature, and where every mark, stain, and stitch becomes part of a living archive of process.

What to expect

• Hands-on experimental making across paper and textiles
• Layered, process-driven artworks
• Guidance in both technique and intuitive composition
• A calm, immersive, and creative atmosphere
• Exploration of chance, texture, and natural transformation