Topic: Botanical Printing & Dyeing

Speaker: Mayumi Fujio

Mayumi is an award winning fiber artist using natural dye and mushroom dye with the technique called botanical printing which uses real leaves to transfer colors and shapes from plants onto natural fibers. She extracts dye from nature and uses it for her work on silk, wool and other natural fibers. Mayumi will present a brief history of natural dye, the types of plants (and some insects!) to dye and process of Botanical printing.