New Year, New Workshops: Pattern Making
Sarah Burns is a natural forager, exploring and reviving natural dyes and pigments from the plants and flowers she finds close to her Sussex workshop. She uses foraged natural dyes to create striking and organic patterns in hand-block printed textiles. Prior to running her own textile printing studio, Sarah studied Politics at Jesus College, Cambridge and Textile Design at Chelsea College of Art. Now a pattern-maker, textile printer and teacher, her fabrics are inspired by natural, seasonal materials and the places near where she lives and works on the South Downs.
Her fabrics are hand-block printed in her Sussex workshop using natural foraged dyes and pigments. Her patterns have been commissioned by the Dartington Trust and the Virginia White Collection and Cloth Collective. She co-authored the first monograph on pioneering 1930s textile designers Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher and is committed to reviving ancient techniques like natural dyeing and block printing that are centred on zero waste and carbon-neutral making processes.
In her Pattern Making online workshop on Saturday 2 & Saturday 16 March 2024,
you will have the chance to explore the world of pattern making: how to create and layer up your own repeat patterns and, most importantly, how to create a sense of rhythm and harmony in your own designs. In the first session, Sarah will lead you through a series of pattern-making exercises aimed at exploring rhythm, the process of repeat pattern making and the full potential of hand block printing, resulting in your final block print design. In the second session, you will learn how to print your own patterns onto fabric by mastering practical techniques to print fabrics with blocks and printing mediums.
Sarah Burn's will be teaching an online workshop in Pattern Making on Saturday 2 & Saturday 16 March 2024.
Find out and more and book your next Selvedge online workshop:
www.selvedge.org/collections/workshops
Her fabrics are hand-block printed in her Sussex workshop using natural foraged dyes and pigments. Her patterns have been commissioned by the Dartington Trust and the Virginia White Collection and Cloth Collective. She co-authored the first monograph on pioneering 1930s textile designers Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher and is committed to reviving ancient techniques like natural dyeing and block printing that are centred on zero waste and carbon-neutral making processes.
In her Pattern Making online workshop on Saturday 2 & Saturday 16 March 2024,
you will have the chance to explore the world of pattern making: how to create and layer up your own repeat patterns and, most importantly, how to create a sense of rhythm and harmony in your own designs. In the first session, Sarah will lead you through a series of pattern-making exercises aimed at exploring rhythm, the process of repeat pattern making and the full potential of hand block printing, resulting in your final block print design. In the second session, you will learn how to print your own patterns onto fabric by mastering practical techniques to print fabrics with blocks and printing mediums.
Sarah Burn's will be teaching an online workshop in Pattern Making on Saturday 2 & Saturday 16 March 2024.
Find out and more and book your next Selvedge online workshop:
www.selvedge.org/collections/workshops