Practical course of natural dyeing.
An ancient and traditional technique to dye yarns and fabrics with plants.
During the course, you will learn the procedures, the materials, the doses and the timing, the dyeing plants. You will do, personally, with the guide of Elena, all the operations of dyeing of a wool skin that you can bring back home.
Elena, artisan of the nature, walks along the fields looking for spontaneous plants that give amazing colors. With an ancient and traditional procedure, she uses them to dye cotton, silk, linen, wool in a natural way, creating soft textile for the skin and for the environment. She recovers local wool from the shepherds, for whom the wool is a useless scrap, giving new birth to this material full of history and of which the value was lost. She washes, cards, spins and dyes manually the wool in order to obtain precious and sustainable yarns.
The clay handling is an activity with a strong narrative value, typical of the origins of the human culture and as so is proposed at this laboratory, as a process of rediscovering of an identity.
The recipe of the pottery art presents two different aspects, apparently contrasting. On one hand, thanks to the ductility of the clay, it can release the imagination of each one of us, even the most wild. On the other hand, it needs the strict respect of precise techniques and the right use of different tools (lancet, sculpting tools, lathe, cutter, ecc…). Only then, the product of one own fantasy can pass through the oven-test and become actual pottery, that is clay material handled and transformed through the fire.
Under the attention guide of the teacher Luca, realize with Terrarte your masterpiece!
The experience includes:
- Visit to the Terrarte laboratory.
- Participation to a brief pottery course. The course is divided in two phases: one theoretical, during which you will learn about the working and decoration technique of the pottery, and another practical, where you can try to decorate a wall plate, finishing with the glaze and the preparation for the cooking.
After 4 days, you can pick up the plate after the cooking at the lab, or we will provide the shipping with an agreed cost.