tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30913907409604368412024-02-22T13:14:31.155-08:00Gina MastioA poetic collection of handmade ooak wearable art clothing, using natural fibres, felting, natural dyeing and eco prints, to wrap you in nature's loving embrace.
Une collection poétique de vetements d'Art faits main avec des fibres naturelles, feutrage, teinture végétale. Pour vous envelopper dans la douceur de la nature avec volupté...Gina Mastiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160770306214982299noreply@blogger.comBlogger159125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3091390740960436841.post-21891218225162494992018-11-11T14:53:00.002-08:002018-11-11T14:56:00.247-08:00Eco dye course Sunday 18th November <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My last eco dye course will be this coming Sunday the 18th November on the Northern Beaches, Sydney. Just in time for some original creativity before that gift giving time. Maybe you can create some gifts for your loved ones with your new found skills?<br />
Contact me quick for a spot in the course.<br />
Sunday, 10 am till 4pm, materials, lunch and morning tea supplied, $175 for a fun filled day with like minded creatives in a lovely setting.<br />
Hope to see you there.<br />
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<br />Gina Mastiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160770306214982299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3091390740960436841.post-34745624706275858872018-09-19T19:23:00.001-07:002018-09-19T19:23:48.782-07:00Eco dye course in Sydney, October 21st 2018This is an example of what we will be covering in my next plant dye class in Sydney, Sunday 21st October 2018. Lunch and materials all included. $175. 10am till 4pm. Contact me for further details.<div>
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Gina Mastiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160770306214982299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3091390740960436841.post-58057327046899555582018-09-15T21:21:00.000-07:002018-09-15T21:25:09.718-07:00Plant dye course in Sydney, October 21st 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For anyone who would enjoy a lovely Sunday spent on the deck with like minded eco enthusiasts, exploring the magic of plant dyes and their wonderful array of colours hidden within.<br />
Lunch and morning tea included plus all materials required.<br />
Sunday October 21st, 2018. 10 am to 4 pm, $175. This is in the Northern Beaches area of Sydney.<br />
Contact me for more details.<br />
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<br />Gina Mastiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160770306214982299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3091390740960436841.post-32666680859301302002018-08-29T20:25:00.000-07:002018-08-29T20:26:17.981-07:00Well it's been such a long time...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well it's been such a long time since I updated my blog, I feel rather ashamed of myself! Apologies if anyone was looking for me. I seem to have become absorbed in other media, namely instagram which is where you will find my up to date info. @ginamastio</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But rest assured, I have still had the fingers in the dye pot and some gentle stitching during these winter months here in Sydney. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One project I enjoyed was the revamping of my woolen blanket which I dyed about five years ago and with age it had faded a bit and gotten pilled as wool does eventually when it's loved. So I threw it back in the dye pot with some fresh leaves and now it has a wonderful second age in a lovely rich colour scheme and those pilling balls all vanished, magic!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is some of the lovely beach in Sydney over winter. I quite like the wild and woolly nature of the waves on this particular day. Windswept and interesting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And here is another project I worked on, dyeing of my silk nuno felt little blankets, perfect for a baby. All natural fibers and plant dyed, no chemicals or mordants. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've also run some dye courses since my last post and will be hosting some more in the next couple of months here in Sydney so if you're interested, let me know. Details to follow....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">spring is just around the corner....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Gina Mastiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160770306214982299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3091390740960436841.post-51059043597695732002017-06-25T22:44:00.000-07:002017-06-25T22:45:31.181-07:00Sydney Morning Herald article on my eco dye course at Sydney Botanic Gardens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Robin Powell was one of the lovely ladies at my natural plant dye course at the Sydney Botanic Gardens earlier in the year and here is an article she wrote for the Sydney Morning Herald about what she got out of the two day course. Below is the online version of the article.<br />
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When I was a child I spent hours making potions and perfumes from the pickings in my mum's garden. The purple fingers of flowers that waved at me from a huge old buddleia were highly sought after, but what I didn't know then is that buddleia has a secret side for the potion-maker. When heated, those purple flowers produce a dye as saffron-yellow as turmeric. </div>
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This astonishing metamorphosis was the most surprising finding of a weekend spent experimenting with eco-dyeing; and reliving my childhood as a garden witch/perfumier. The workshop was held at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney and run by eco-dyer and felter Gina Mastio.</div>
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<img alt="Buddleia's purple flowers produce a saffron-yellow dye when heated." src="https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/z/i/t/r/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gvziuw.png/1494547563974.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 620px;" title="" /><figcaption class="media__caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.4286; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Buddleia's purple flowers produce a saffron-yellow dye when heated. <cite style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777579; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Photo: Gina Mastio</cite></figcaption></figure><br />
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Mastio makes hand-crafted clothes in wool and nunio, a fabric made by felting wool over silk. The fabric is dyed and printed with what she picks up walking the kids to school or gathers in her Frenchs Forest garden. The garden wasn't planted as a dyer's warehouse. Her interest was edibles, so there are natives out the front for the birds, fruit trees and vegetables out the back for the family, and flowers for bees and butterflies.</div>
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But it's all gone into the dye pot at some point. "When I walk around the garden there's always something new to try," she says. "I could use something familiar at a different temperature, or with a different metal to affect the colour. Or I might just use it as a print. I was pruning the 'Bronze Rambler' grevillea the other day and was stuck by its lovely outline – that would make a great print."</div>
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Eco-dying and printing is a sleek fit with the hipster appreciation of the hand-crafted; consequently the web is crammed with instructions about how to dye stuff and print stuff with the plants from your garden. To try out it yourself, simply jam some leaves or flowers into a jar of water, and heat up the jar in a boiler of water for 30 minutes (place a folded tea towel in the bottom of the boiler as you would it you were sterilising jars).</div>
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Let the colour develop, then strain out the organic matter, dunk a test strip of silk in the dye (silk and wool take up the dye best) and steam the dye jar and its silk strip in the boiler for another half an hour.</div>
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We found that banana leaves make a dull green dye, avocado seeds make soft apricot, onion skins make rusty orange, and the dried leaves of ornamental cherries turn silk a lovely pinky-brown. But nothing beat the buddleia for intensity. The tiny browned-off flowers print as sparkles of gold on the fabric. "You can deadhead the bush when the flowers have finished and store them in a paper bag," says Mastio. "They get pretty nasty-looking, but even a year later you still get brilliant colour."</div>
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The workshop gave me a whole new way to appreciate my garden – as craft cupboard, and not just for the kids and their potions.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are some photos from the two day nuno felt eco dye course I ran at the Sydney Botanic Gardens recently. This is the third year I have had the pleasure to give a dye workshop at the gardens and I'm always sincerely grateful for the honour, as I do consider it such an incredible landmark in Australia, a place of breathtaking beauty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the workshop this year I combined eco plant dyeing with nuno felt making, so that participants learnt some techniques in both creative fields. In two days they learnt emersion dyes from garden plants, eco printing, created a nuno felt shawl with eco dyeing and a cushion cover, also plant dyed. They now have enough creative knowledge to continue to explore for the rest of their days!</span><br />
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Gina Mastiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160770306214982299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3091390740960436841.post-16684463242419000542017-03-09T17:19:00.000-08:002017-03-09T17:19:22.928-08:00Learn to nuno felt and eco dye with plants<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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There are still a few places left in my nuno felting and eco dyeing course running at the Sydney Botanic Gardens next Friday and Saturday the 17th and 18th March 2017. Be quick to contact the gardens on the link below or contact them on <span style="color: #4a4748; font-family: AvenirLT-Medium; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">Lyn Johnson (02) 9231 8182 | <a href="mailto:lyn.johnson@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au">lyn.johnson@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au</a></span><br />
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Two days of fun exploring creative and beautiful techniques that you can continue to practice at home after. Endless possibilities and you will take home two original creations made by you.<br />
Hope to see you there.<br />
<a href="https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/whatson/Pland-Dyed-Nuno-Felt-Textiles-with-Gina-Mastio">https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/whatson/Pland-Dyed-Nuno-Felt-Textiles-with-Gina-Mastio </a><br />
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Gina Mastiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160770306214982299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3091390740960436841.post-23320981591860180552017-01-22T20:22:00.000-08:002017-01-22T20:22:43.896-08:002017 Nuno felt plant dye course at Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney<header style="color: #4a4748; font-family: AvenirLT-Light; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; min-height: 40px;"><section class="wrapper" style="margin: auto; max-width: 1366px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px 35.5625px 10px; position: relative;"><div class="MsoNormal">
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plant/natural fibres course. Perfect for beginners or more experienced
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The gorgeous Francheska kindly wearing my creations. </span>Gina Mastiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160770306214982299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3091390740960436841.post-70589245725374712342016-08-22T20:52:00.001-07:002016-08-22T20:54:31.441-07:00Article in newspaper 2<br />
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Designer Gina Mastio made prestigious NY Times Wedding section with star composer’s granddaughter’s frock</h1>
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A DRESS made from felt and dyed with eucalyptus leaves has made it into the prestigious weddings section of the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">New York Times.</em></div>
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Frenchs Forest designer Gina Mastio made the dress for bride Frankie Thomas — despite her getting married in Connecticut, USA.</div>
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She’s the granddaughter of <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">West Side Story </em>composer Leonard Bernstein, and found Mrs Mastio online.</div>
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She was commissioned to craft the special frock from silk and other natural fibres, including a concoction of the Aussie leaves — with rusty metal added to create the oyster grey colour.</div>
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She had no idea the buyer had such an illustrious heritage or that she’d be chosen by the paper.</div>
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Mrs Mastio, said: “I nearly fell over. I couldn’t believe it.”</div>
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The dress featured in a storey called Dresses Our Brides Have Worn, alongside frocks by big name designers including Phillip Lim.</div>
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Similar dresses take six weeks to create and cost from $650.</div>
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WHO IS FRANKIE THOMAS?</h3>
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FRANKIE is a freelance writer and transcriber for journalists and documentary filmmakers.</div>
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She married Ian Tattersall, a doctor, in Connecticut on June 4.</div>
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The couple met, according to the New York Times, through mutual friends out for a night at a karaoke bar in Manhattan in 2011.</div>
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He friended her on Facebook the next day but they didn’t become a couple until the following summer after directing A Midsummer Night’s Dream together for the Bard Hall Players.</div>
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The bride told the designer she’d wanted one of her dresses before she even knew she was getting married.</div>
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She wrote in her review of Mrs Mastio’s work: “I am so lucky to have found Gina Mastio, the most talented artist working on Etsy!</div>
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As soon as I discovered her work, I immediately knew I wanted her to provide my wedding dress — and I wasn’t even engaged yet.</div>
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“Once I got engaged, I never even considered getting my dress anywhere else: I HAD to have a Gina Mastio dress.</div>
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“It was an absolute dream come true when she agreed to make a custom one for me.</div>
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I'm in New York, and I was worried about working with a designer in Australia, but Gina was always responsive, informative, and kind in our correspondence.</div>
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“She asked good questions and made helpful suggestions about the design and sizing. When the dress arrived, it was wrapped in beautiful paper, with a lovely handwritten note.</div>
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“And the dress is PERFECT — gorgeous, well made, even better than I hoped! Thank you, Gina!”</div>
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The New York times reported that the bride also liked the frock because she can wear it again, unlike many of the sumptuous creations.</div>
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Mrs Mastio, who is originally from France, said: “She contacted me through my etsy shop and requested me to create a dress for her.</div>
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“We discussed the style and sizing details, and I contacted her whenever I needed a detail clarified.</div>
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“With my techniques I use, it is very sculptural.</div>
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“The dresses are not cut and stitched, but rather hand felted from silk fabric and wool fibres that are laid down individually.</div>
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“The piece is hand felted together and shrinks during the process. There are many factors that influence the outcome, so no two items are alike.</div>
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“Experience is the essential ingredient to create a dress at a distance in such circumstances.”</div>
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</aside>Gina Mastiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160770306214982299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3091390740960436841.post-16830298908761096582016-07-27T18:35:00.000-07:002016-07-27T18:35:01.021-07:00Eco dye course in Sydney<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">An exciting one day workshop on Thursday 18th August from 9.30 till 3.30. Lunch and materials included, in personal setting. $170, booking required. More details below. Northern beaches, Sydney.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #6a1419; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">In this 1 day course you will create submersion dyes with numerous plants and experiment with some simple techniques to pattern cloth. We will also explore the magic of eco prints and play with scrap metal.</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #6a1419; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #6a1419; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #6a1419; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #6a1419; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">This course is perfect for beginners and dabblers of dyeing who may like a little more guidance with these techniques. You will leave with new creative ideas to make your fabrics and papers more unique and beautiful, using natural dyeing techniques. Great for any textile of craft enthusiast. </span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #6a1419; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #6a1419; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">A sample pack of silk and wool fabrics is included in the price, as well as paper and a wool scarf to dye.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using plants to make natural colour.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eco printing on paper.</td></tr>
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Life is full of surprises. Just as I had landed in beautiful Sardinia last September, content to have a wonderful break with my family, I received an etsy conversation from a lovely girl named Charlie, who lives in New York. She told me she was in love with a boy, and my dresses, and wondered if I could make her one for her wedding in June. So one thing led to another and at a distance from Sydney when I finally stopped gallivanting, I made her wedding dress.... <u>that just got featured in the New York Times</u> last week, in a wonderful article about some unusual wedding dresses, which you can read about here:<br />
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It was an amazing surprise when Frankie contacted me last week to say we were in the New York Times, I felt like I was dreaming. It's a funny old life, this one.... I just love the elfish look of these two young loves. A pleasure to be a part of it. Here is the lovely review Frankie gave me on my creation:<br />
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am so lucky to have found Gina Mastio, the most talented artist
working on Etsy! As soon as I discovered her work, I immediately knew
I wanted to her to provide my wedding dress -- and I wasn't even
engaged yet. :) Once I got engaged, I never even considered getting
my dress anywhere else: I HAD to have a GIna Mastio dress. It was an
absolute dream come true when she agreed to make a custom one for me.
I'm in New York, and I was worried about working with a designer in
Australia, but Gina was always responsive, informative, and kind in
our correspondence. She asked good questions and made helpful
suggestions about the design and sizing. When the dress arrived, it
was wrapped in beautiful paper, with a lovely handwritten note. And
the dress is PERFECT -- gorgeous, well made, even better than I
hoped! Thank you, Gina!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Large shawls made to order. Contact me for prices.</span>Gina Mastiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160770306214982299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3091390740960436841.post-66616090129068505312016-06-02T19:53:00.002-07:002016-06-09T21:19:04.014-07:00Video from eco dye course at Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tara Axford has kindly shared with me this video she shot during my two day eco dye workshop I recently ran at the Sydney Botanic Gardens. We had a gorgeous two days of sunshine, heat, plants and colour. In this current wet and chilly day as I write, I miss that heat we were trying to hide from in autumn! Click the link below for a hint of the grand time we shared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you're looking to explore creating natural colour from plants, then here is a wonderful two days of exploration and good humour, not to mention yummy food, at the Sydney Botanic Gardens. What a beautiful place to play with nature!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We will cover submersion dyes made from various plants, eco printing on fabrics, explore some of the infinite ways you can creatively dye with plants, plus dye your own scarf and also a cushion cover in two days of hubble and bubble. Delicious morning tea and lunch provided, as well as materials. What a lovely way to pass two days in May! </span><span style="color: #4a4748; font-family: AvenirLT-Medium; line-height: 19.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">17 - 18 May 9.30 am - 4 pm </span></span><a href="https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/Visit/Map#l=maiden-theatre" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #6e7822; font-family: AvenirLT-Medium; font-weight: bold !important; line-height: 19.2px; outline: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joseph Maiden Theatre</span></a><br />
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A beautiful way to make custom designed paper for cards or letters (remember those?) or unique art pieces.Gina Mastiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11160770306214982299noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3091390740960436841.post-48895790815264109932016-03-29T17:33:00.000-07:002016-03-29T17:33:56.828-07:00Two day eco dye course at Sydney Botanic Gardens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A creative workshop with time to explore and experiment with natural colour from plants and their effects on natural fibres. Using a variety of techniques, learn how to make beautiful unique patterns on fabrics, using plants easily found around your home and local environment. Perfect for any enthusiast of textiles, from sewer to weaver, felt maker or quilter. Learn to create a palette of colours and patterns you can transform into many beautiful items.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.2px;"></span><span style="line-height: 19.2px;">Beginning with submersions dyes made from a variety of plants and barks, then moving on to eco prints using leaves, flowers and barks to mark and print onto fabrics. We will also look at pre-mordanting fabrics and its effects. Day two will be unwrapping bundles and exploring further techniques such as folding of cloth and overdyeing to achieve more complex pattern and colour combinations.. Each participant will go home with their own piece of textile art as well as notes for experimenting further at home.</span></div>
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A sample pack of fabrics such as silk, wool and silk thread will be provided in the course fees, as well as a scarf and cushion cover for the second day piece. This pack is worth $40 and is included in the price. You are also welcome to bring in natural fabrics of your own to experiment with, such as silk, wool or felt. Some other small quantities of fabrics will be available to buy on the day.</div>
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Gina Mastio is an Australian textiles and clothing artist with a passion for the environment and a strong ecological conscience. She has exhibited in France and Australia and her works are in international private collections. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still enjoying exploring in Europe, recently it's been in Spain. With Gaudi, ancient cities like Toledo and Girona and the beauty of mountains with orange groves climbing into olives and almonds before ending in pines and wonderful hiking trails... inspiration is running high. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday I found these walnuts and hulls on the back deck at a friend's house. One of my favourite dyes, rich browns of varying shades. Pity I can't take those home with me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, details. One day of dabbling over steamy pots, playing with plant materials, varying fabrics and some bits and bobs such as fore mentioned rusty Spanish treasures... covering the basics of submersion dyes and eco prints and sending you on your way to further experiment and explore these wonderful techniques to make colour and pattern on cloth. You will make lots of samples and dye your own scarf to take home.</span><br />
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