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Description
Join us at the UT Arboretum for a full day botanical printing workshop on Saturday, September 13 from 9am -4pm. Did you know many leaves and flowers will share colors and create beautiful natural prints on fabric? Botanical printer Jan Quarles will teach a workshop on the basics of this amazing process during our Art in the Arboretum fall event. Workshop participants will make and take home two scarves of their own design!
Due to the hands-on instruction, the class is limited to 10 participants. *The fee is $140 which covers instruction and all materials including the two silk scarves that each participant will print and take home! Registration with payment is required to reserve your spot in the class. The class is for ages 16 and up. UT Arboretum Society members receive a 15% discount on registration. One scholarship is available for a high school or college student to participate in the class. Contact Michelle Campanis, UT Arboretum Education Coordinator at mcampani@utk.edu. Please wear clothes you don't mind getting dirty!
Students will learn how to choose plants that transfer their color and prints well. Each student will make two beautiful silk scarves by placing plants (leaves and flowers) for a design on a prepared fabric. They will then then roll, dye, and steam the fabric in a layered technique for beautiful prints. Work will be done with two prepared scarves – one with eucalyptus that turns an amazing red and another with materials provided by the Arboretum.
*Minimum of 4 attendees for class to be held..
No refunds are available unless we are able to fill your spot from a wait list.
Our instructor, Jan Quarles, is a long-time fiber artist who works with the beauty of the natural world. For more than 30 years she’s been a dyer, weaver, knitter, seamstress, and spinner. Today, with her small business, What Nature Leaves, she is a botanical printer who marries natural dyes with nature’s leaves and flowers to document colors and seasons.
She’s also an indigo dyer and practitioner of shibori and katazome who deeply loves the magic of indigo and layers the blues with other natural dyes in her botanical practice. Quarles had a solo show of her indigo and botanical prints in Nashville in 2022. She has a botanically printed flag in an international show and has studied with many teachers at Arrowmont, Penland and other craft venues nationally and internationally. She is a former journalist and professor of mass communication in the United States and overseas who has always practiced her fiber arts in the hours that were her own.
Date & Time
Sat, Sep 13, 2025 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Venue Details
UT Arboretum -Sharp Program Shelter
901 S Illinois Avenue UT ArboretumOak Ridge, Tennessee 37830-8032
