Join us for an epic afternoon of experimenting with color and pattern at Vive Handmade’s studio as we create a collaborative textile piece.

In a fun, judgment-free, there-are-no-mistakes environment, you will learn several textile techniques including painting, printing, stamping, and more. We'll be working with non-toxic water-based textile inks that can be applied in many ways.

Let your imagination fly as we create something magical together as a community. Bring a friend and make new friends! Beginners, experienced artists, and dreamers are welcome. 

Get an inside look at Vive Handmade and the collection of hand-dyed and printed scarves, pillows, and accessories. The studio is a playground of color, come experience the possibilities.

Note: Please wear clothing that you don't mind getting a little paint on! These colors are permanent on fabric.

Vive Handmade is created out of a deep connection to the energetic aspects of color and its ability to uplift and inspire us.

Working with water-based dyes on natural fabrics is endlessly interesting, improvisational and alive. Fiber, dye and water molecules meet in a spontaneous dance and colors emerge, merge and blend in exciting, serendipitous ways. There is an invitation to become a co-creator as intentional craft processes are applied to the alchemy of dye meeting cloth.

Ever wanted to design your own fabric? In this workshop you will create a unique design and transfer it to fabric using the cyanotype process.

Paper to Cloth with Cyanotype: using cut paper collage we will create one of a kind designs that will be transfers to fabric using the cyanotype process. This workshop will be heavily design focused, employing a number of drawing exercises to get the creativity flowing.

With a background in art and a career as a celebrity makeup artist in film and television, Arielle has created a line of goods that are both graphic and fun. Blending her love of the outdoors and design.

Four Rabbit was created for those who appreciate graphic imagery, color, sustainability, lightweight traveling and who want more of it in their lives.

Learn More www.fourrabbit.com @four.rabbit

www.ariellecutspaper.com

In conjunction with NY Textile Month, The Primary Essentials is excited to host two block printing workshops with Swati Bansal of Soil to Studio.

Soil to Studio, established in late 2019, is a Brooklyn-based textile studio. Its founder, Swati Bansal was born and raised in the small town of Udaipur in India, where she was exposed to various traditional crafts by her mother and grandmother from a young age. Through Soil to Studio, Swati offers a window into India’s rich culture and access to its skilled artisans, creating all items with time-honored techniques including block printing.

The Primary Essentials opened in Brooklyn in the Fall of 2013 as a place to provide an edited mix of special objects for the home and gift, with an emphasis on how we live our daily lives.

Taking place in the garden at The Primary Essentials with Swati’s guidance, each participant will walk away with a set of 4 napkins on which they will make their own creation.

This is a two-day workshop, Saturday 22nd, and September 23rd, 2023 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM.

In order to attend, we ask you to secure your spot in advance by purchasing your ticket. All sales are final.

Learn More www.theprimaryessentials.com & www.soiltostudio.com

Exhibition of quilts and monoprints prints by Lawre Stone.

Lawre Stone’s quilt works bring together found quilts and unfinished quilt tops gathered from her ancestors and other unknown quilt makers. To honor their handwork and legacy, she picks up where the former maker left off adding her own stitches and imagery. Working on patchwork panels, she paints images derived from natural phenomena directly onto the new fabric patches and then hand appliques them to the quilt tops. The images are remembered feelings relating to internalized observations of the natural world. The petals of a dying flower, a vital organ in distress, or a broken chunk of an iceberg inspire the image she selects. Like a quilting bee, the finishing is done by a seamstress living in Lawre’s local community. The final works are inter-generational collaborations between women spanning decades, regions and cultures.

During NY Textile month, Lawre will be working at the Russell Janis print studio with printmaker Janis Stemmermann producing a series of prints, based on these unique quilts works. This project will explore printing hand-drawn imagery and cut textile onto her mother’s handmade paper made decades ago, a collaborative layering of materiality and time. Russell Janis will host an exhibition of Lawre’s quilt works and newly made prints side by side.

Learn More russelljanis.com, @russelljanis

lawrestone.com, @lawrestone

Russell Janis Projects is an artist-run project space based in Brooklyn, NY established in 2014. They produce and exhibit print-based works, Inviting artists of various disciplines to collaborate. Creative Director Janis Stemmermann curates projects that push the boundaries of contemporary printmaking using textile, sculpture and the painterly print. The print studio at Russell Janis generates an array of editions, series, and unique works of art using techniques of intaglio, relief and monoprinting.