dye-painting silk workshops

painting silk in the serti method using non-toxic, water-base dyes

These exciting silk painting classes require four to five hours, allowing time to create a spontaneous scarf, a designed scarf, and a handkerchief sample. Optimal class size is 5 to 7 students, allowing more instructor assistance/coaching time for each student. Smaller and larger classes can be arranged. For larger classes, an assistant may help mix colors, freeing the artist to spend more time with each student.
 

class schedule

We had two one-day workshops in silk this summer and one is pending in the fall.

  • One workshop was Saturday, July 9 from 10am to 4pm with a lunch break.
  • The second was Saturday, July 23 from 10am to 4pm with a lunch break.
  • A fall workshop is pending with time and date yet to be determined. Reserve your spot by making payment to visibleinvisible and mail to 4141 116th Avenue SE, Olympia, WA 98501 (which is not the workshop location) Call 360-264-4301 to pay with visa or mastercard. Please do not email credit card information as email is not secure.
  • Other workshops may be special-arranged by appointment. Call or email with a proposed time and date and group size. 

 

location of classes

The July classes will be hosted in the facility of Gateway Christian Center off I-5 exit 111 in Lacey (Hawk's Prairie.) NOTE: It's a commercial building and does not look like a church.
2610 Willamette Dr NE Ste C
Lacey, WA 98516
see map
 
Classes are normally held in an artsy room downstairs in the old Carnegie Library, also the present site of Reality - at the NE corner of Franklin and 7th, downtown Olympia.
see map 620 Franklin St. SE, Olympia, WA 98501
 
You may also host the class in your chosen venue if space and lighting are adequate. Call to arrange.
  

tuition

$120 per student includes:
  • Completion of two 11 x 60 silk scarves (one spontaneous and one designed) and a handkerchief sample
  • Silk, dyes, materials and supplies
  • Instruction on silk dying and color
  • Coaching & assistance creating your silk scarf
  • Steam-setting of your silk artwork for permanence (hand-washable and dry-cleanable)
  • Shipping of your silks to you when steam-set
  • For your designed scarf, choose from approx 11 x 60 inch 100% silk in habotai, silk satin, and crepe de chine. Habotai and crepe de chine are the easiest.
     

availability & reservations

You may call or email to verify class availability. (see phone & email at page bottom - and replace "at" with @ in the email address) To reserve your place, send a check for $120 per student to the business address which is at the page bottom (footer). Please note that this is NOT the class location (see above for class location).
Please make checks payable to visibleinvisible. Thanks!
 


preparing for your class

Click here for more information on how to prepare for the class and what items to bring with you.
 
 
 
Here left are students getting started at a Saturday class. Click on the photo to see some very creative silk painters having lots of fun.