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Studio Galli DVDs - "Natural Dye Workshop 4 - Beyond Mordants, Indigo and more" with Michel Garcia NEW - free UK P&P

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, cleaning with sulfonated castor oil and marseille soap; polychromatic effects with resist paste, block printing, and over-dyeing, using a variety of mordants and dyes.

Extended Bonus Notes on www.naturaldyeworkshop.com are made available with purchase.

2 discs, 238 minutes, worldwide play. English audio - subtitles in Chinese, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish.

Produced by Yoshiko I Wada and Slow Fiber Studios. Directed and filmed by Andrew Galli of Galli Creative.

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2-disc set, 238 mins