UPCOMING ONLINE ZOOM-BASED PROGRAMS
SUMMER 2022
The course is intensive and project driven – all concepts presented are partnered with a wide range of projects that make use of diverse techniques and materials.
Zoom recordings may be downloaded and saved.
Beginner’s Guide to Japanese Indigo
from seed to harvest
Are you fascinated by the beautiful colors of indigo–both the midnight blues of reduced vats and the birght robin’s egg blue of fresh-leaf dyeing? Just not sure of where to get started?
Then this is the perfect class for you!
SIX-DAY SERIES 2023
Sunday, April 2
Sunday, April 30
Sunday, June 25
Sundays, July 16 and 23
(August 13 review session)
Advanced Garment Design
original designs by John Marshall
For the past fifty years I’ve enjoyed creating unususal garment designs to show off my dyed textiles. My
designs were carried for twenty years by Bergdorf Goodman in New York and Obiko
in San Francisco. They have been featured in solo exhibitions sponsored by the US State Department as
well as the Embassy of Japan.
This will be the first time I am offering a course that focuses on my own
original designs.
THREE TWO-HOUR SESSIONS
Saturdays in April
April 1, 8, and 15
11:00–1:00 pm PST
COLORS OF INDIGO
DYEING WITH JAPANESE INDIGO
two levels, both quite intensive
BOYS’ DAY EGG DOLLS
Egg dolls are great fun to amke–made from real eggs!
We’ll be covering a range of tradtional egg doll construction techniques, and you’ll be able to follow along with my tradtional themes or venture off into your
own imaginative creations.
Multi-generaltional participation is
certainly encouraged!
Ssaturday, May 6, 2023
11:00 PST
SARASA II
JAPANESE PRINTING WITH STENCILS
Sarasa embodies the influece of a great many foreign aestheics on Japanese
textiles, always approachable and charming.
three days of class plus review session
May 13, 20, and 27
June 3 review
11:00-1:00 p.m. PST
KATAZOME
PASTE RESIST DYEING
Katazome is my love and my passion. From the challenge of carving my own
stencils to steaming the resist to preparing and applying the dyes, I love it
all and look forward to sharing all the intricacies of this centuries old
technique with you.
five days of class plus review session
Wednesday-Saturday, July 12–15 and July 29 review
11:00-1:00 p.m. PST
There is so much more hidden in the Japanese indigo plant, Persicaria tinctoria,
than you may have been told! Blues, of course, but also greens, yellows,
purples…a whole rainbow of colors.
In this course we will delve into all the possibilities, how to prepare and
preserve the colors along with several projects to help you to become
well-grounded in the techniques as you begin your own explorations.
level one
Level one starts out with the basics of how to plant and harvest your dye. The
rest of the program focusses on using the raw Persicaria tinctoria to create an
amazing array of blues–the pale watery blue of a desert sky, the intense cornflower blue of a robin’s egg, and of course the blue of a starless night.
six sessions
Sunday–Friday
July 30–August 4
This format, spread out over several months, allows you to work with John at the
appropriate times of the growing season. We’ll start out with the seeds John will supply to you, covering all the steps in
getting your plants started. We’ll collect leaves at their peak to work on a wide variety of projects, and
finally harvest our last batch of plants to dry for winter use and gather the
seeds in anticipation of preparing for next year.
Click on this section for a more thorough list of just what is included in the
program.
three sessions
Saturdays
August 26
10:00 until noon
picking up again at 1:00–3:00
September 2
10:00–noon PST
We’ll be focusing on design concepts as well as specific garment construction
techniques I’ve developed over the years. Pattern layouts are included in the class.
level two
Level two is independent of level one while still building upon the common
principles.
In this session we’ll be focusing more on producing pigments and working with reduction vats using
the pigments as the source of color in our vats.
six sessions
Sunday–Friday
August 6-11
