A focused one-day immersion into the foundations of Japanese shibori resist and indigo dyeing, designed for both first-time and returning students.

Working with authentic Japanese tenugui cotton, students are introduced to the essential principles of cloth manipulation, resist, and indigo process. Through folding, binding, wrapping, and compression techniques, participants learn how pattern emerges through tension, pressure, repetition, and the careful relationship between cloth and dye.

Each workshop introduces two shibori approaches. Students then select a pathway aligned with their experience level, allowing both beginners and returning students to work side-by-side while developing at different depths. New students focus on foundational skills and confidence-building, while returning students may explore increased precision, repetition, variation, and refinement within the same techniques.

Dyeing is done using a high-quality pre-reduced indigo sourced from Japan, allowing students to complete the full dye process within a single day. Through multiple dips and oxidation cycles, participants experience how indigo develops gradually — building depth, contrast, and richness over time.

All techniques are carefully chosen to be completed within the workshop timeframe, including binding, dyeing, rinsing, and finishing, so students leave with a complete understanding of the process from start to finish.

Instruction is individualized and responsive, and no two sessions are exactly alike. This workshop may be taken more than once, as each offering presents variation in technique, cloth, and outcome.

Rooted in traditional Japanese resist methods, this class emphasizes process, discipline, and material awareness over the pursuit of a predetermined finished item.