Marla has a very amazing space to work in. Her entire home seems to be dedicated to creating! Her house is filled with artistic creations, she has a huge studio area and her entire back yard is a wet studio (including her pool)!
There were four of us in the class. Marla showed us the basics and then let us 'play'. We had a blast!!
Marla mixes her dyes very concentrated in large recycled juice jugs. She only wets her fabrics in soda ash, she doesn't necessarily soak them for 30 minutes as suggested. Then she puts some dye concentrate in a bowl adds part or all of the cloth. She will add some pre-mixed soda ash water to the bowl for lighter colours. The totally soaked with dye piece of cloth then goes into a plastic bag and sits in the sun. It cures for a couple of hours and then is rinsed out. Check out where she does her rinsing!! Then the cloth is washed in a washing machine with some Synthrapol which gets out the last of the extra dye. Voila. Your own dyed fabric.
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