STREAMING ALSO AVAILABLE on VIMEO LINK! Natural Dye Workshop I: Colors of Provence Using Sustainable Methods

To Purchase or Rent the Digital Version of this DVD, visit this link.   SUBTITLE LINK for English Subtitle PDFs will be available soon: Sous-titre français, Subtítulo en Español, Sottotitolo Italiano, 日本語字幕, 中文字幕 Join Michel Garcia in Lauris, France as he shares his knowledge as one of the leading natural dye experts in the world. Learn how he has revised traditional European methods - once laborious and polluting - into simpler, safer, modern recipes sensitive to issues of sustainability. Includes in-depth explorations of indigo pigment extraction with woad, brewing easy organic vats with fructose and with henna, and building shades with clay paste resist; mordanting with alum and ferrous on cotton including brush and block printing techniques, fixing mordant with wheat bran and dyeing yellow with artichoke, and combining techniques for simple polychromatic effects; a mordant project painting and printing with cochineal and red vine leaf; dyeing with madder, discharging with lemon, c