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The wonderful August heat here in Galicia, north Spain has clearly inspired the hot spicey colours used by pupils on their 4-day scarf making course for beginners. The course was taught by our professional weaver, textile designer and course leader, Anna Champeney. Each student was able to choose a different kind of design and yarn – selecting either a warm-weight 4-ply lambswool yarn for winter scarves or a lighter, deliciously soft 2-ply lambswool to set up the 4 and 8-shaft Louet table looms they used for the course. They then sampled using lots of different yarns and colours before finalising their personalised design and weaving it up in the last, intensive day of the course.  All the colours used were previously dyed with the wonderful natural dyes extracted by hand at the Anna Champeney Textile Studio which is what gives them them their complexity in hue which cheaper, lower quality synthetically-dyed yarns simply don´t have.
For one-to-one weaving, dyeing and basketry tuition and group courses given in Spanish, with English language support if necessary, into 2014 contact us for details! See more photos below.  
 Eucalptus cordata leaves have produced rich orange and egg-yolk yellows in an experimental dye session with Anna Champeney Estudio Textil yesterday.
The experiment was based on information contained in the only specialist book in existence on the subject of eucalptus dyeing, by Jean K. Carmen (Dyemaking with Eucalpts, ISBN 0 7270 0648 7, Rigby in association with the Crafts Council of Australia), 1978). The 4 year old Eucalptus cordata plant, sown from seed 4 years ago in Anna Champeney Estudio Textil (northwest Spain), and over-wintered under plastic, from seeds purchased from Chiltern seeds, were dried, broken up into pieces, soaked in cold water for about 4 hours and simmered for approximately 2 hours.  Dye student, Sofia, a topographer by profession, joined Anna Champeney Estudio Textil for private tuition, and assisted in the extraction and dyeing processes. The following day Alum-mordanted skeins were entered in the cold dyebath and heated, once again, for approximately 2-3 hours to obtain the darkest shade. Leaving the skein overnight made little difference after this point. The maximum quantity of leaves was used, according to advice by Jean Carman. In this way 470g of dried eucalptus leaves were used with just 35g of wool. Lower ratios of dyeplant to yarn can be tried in future, but the experiment was designed to show the darkest shade that was possible using this species of eucalyptus.  L-r Logwood with Alum, logwood with copper, Eucalyptus cordata with alum, cochineal from Lanzarote with alum, lighter shades achieved from exhaust baths and with iron modifier. (Natural dyeing tuition and courses in north Spain with textilesnaturales)  Marta Bahillo knitwear for children. Matilde, Babáa´s young model, is wearing a Marta Bahillo oversize t-shirt made from organic Brazilian cotton. We recently had the pleasure of a visit by Spanish knitwear designer Marta Bahillo, with her family including her daughter, Matilde (aged 3 and a half) who also acts as a model for Marta´s children´s collections. We sent Matilde on an itinerary a mission to pick different plants in the garden. These included the eucalptus (Eucalptus cordata) planted about 4 years ago for Anna Champeney Estudio Textil as an experimental dyeplant. This eucalptus is one of dozens of types of eucalptus but is not the common variety planted in many parts of Galicia over a century ago. The seed came from Chiltern Seeds by post and were interested in this species in particular as it is one of the varieties which can reputedly produce orange dyes. Anna will be cropping the tree for the first time ever next week with a private dye pupil. Orange is not an easy colour to achieve with eucalptus and colours vary according to local growing conditions but whatever happens, the plant will produce good dye colours of some kind  You may remember a previous post about Marta Bahillo when she was learning to use natural dyes at natural dyes at Anna Champeney Estudio Textil in 2012.
She has been very busy since then launching her children´s collection which you can buy direct from the online shop Babáa. Organic cotton, Spanish wool and over-size design which mean the clothes will last longer. It´s a good chance to support quality Spanish design with a focus on environmentally-friendly working practices. If you hurry you can enjoy summer sale prices before the autumn/winter collection 2013/14 comes in. We hope to be able to report on future a an exciting future collaboration between Anna Champeney Estudio Textil and Marta Bahillo over the coming months and into 2014.  Marta Bahillo knitwear collections – What Matilde is wearing |
Pago seguro
 NUEVO Octubre 2023 Curso presencial setmanal de teixits de baix lliç (Girona)!Un curso nou, setmanal (3h) a Sant Gregori, Girona, amb l'Anna Champeney. Trimensual, plaças limitadas).
Octobre 2023. Ven a aprender a diseñar y realizar tejidos en telar de bajo lizo a mano. Docente: Anna Champeney, profesional desde 2004, con marca textil propia, experta en tejido de bajo lizo, docente en la Escola Massana, Barcelona.
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