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Japanese Patterns and Textures in Soywax Batik
with Kiranada Sterling Benjamin
June 25 - 29, 2011
Saturday to Wednesday
9:00 - 4:00 daily
$275 per person, includes class & breakfast
--Limited to 12 participants--
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The new washable soy-wax coupled with the outstanding Japanese Rozome Masters' batik techniques make this class a winner. Explore the textural and pattern possibilities of rokata (wax stencil), ro-etching (wax etching), ro-fubuki (wax snowstorm), ro-roller (rolled wax pattern), momo-otoshi (rub and remove), shikibiki (wax trailing) and also han-bosen (half resist) that works so successfully with soy wax. All techniques are applicable to either silk or cotton fabric. The glorious bokashi shading technique will be covered as well as the direct-application yardage dyeing of the kimono industry. An excellent class for Japan enthusiasts, teachers, quilters and fiber collage artists who would like to add textured dyed and stenciled fabrics to their work. For those with rozome experience, a stimulating "workshop style" option is available with reviews of techniques, critiques, and individual support to move your work forward. The class will introduce the possibilities of rozome with soy wax, a non-petroleum, renewable source resist medium that supports American farmers. Beginners to advance students welcomed.
This workshop is partially funded
by The Freeman Foundation.
Kiranada Sterling Benjamin is an acknowledged master of the Japanese rozome wax-resist technique with almost forty years of experience in resist-dyed textiles. She coordinated the successful World Batik Conference - Boston 2005 and curated the Rozome Masters of Japan exhibition that toured the USA in 2005-2006. Author of The World of Rozome: Wax Resist Textiles of Japan, she has exhibited her work in more than fifty shows worldwide with solo exhibitions in Japan, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Germany, England and the USA. Kiranada first went to Japan in 1981 to research Japanese costume and traditional fiber resist returning to the USA in 2000. She maintains a working studio, teaches surface design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, lectures internationally and leads workshops in the US and abroad. She was ordained 'Kiranada' (she who radiates moonlight in Sanskrit) in the Triratna Buddhist Order in 2009. Visit her website.