Botanical Printing & Boro Stitching

Lisa Binkley · October 5 – 9, 2025

The price below is only the Registration Deposit (excluding Community Classes, Donations, Events, Gift Certificates, and Quilts). See description below for Balance and Total Cost of the workshop.

$290.00

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SKU 6530 Category

Registration Deposit: $290 (includes $25 reg fee)
Balance: $635 (includes) $25 materials fee), due 8/6/25
Total cost of Workshop: $925
Dates: Sunday, October 5th – Thursday, October 9th, 2025 (9am-4pm)
Materials: Binkley- Preparation of fabric.pdf

Inspired by the quiet, peaceful beauty of Whidbey Island and the quiet, peaceful process of Japanese boro (mending), this workshop combines botanical printing and simple hand stitching.

We’ll spend three days immersed in printing many of the beautiful plants of Whidbey Island onto natural fabrics. Then we’ll spend two days thoughtfully and meditatively layering, piecing, and hand stitching some of our printed fabrics together using Japanese boro mending and piecing techniques. Students can choose whether to apply these processes to making a quilt, wearable, or other piece of fiber art.

Dyeing with plant pigments has been practiced for as long as humans have made cloth and wished to beautify it. Printing with plants has been practiced for generations through such traditions as Easter egg adornment and in the past few decades as a way to enhance fabrics. Students will learn about the history of dyeing and printing with plants, how to prepare fabric for dyeing and printing, ways to secure and alter botanical dye color on cloth, and many ways to get patterns and images on fabric with plants.

Instructor Bio
Lisa Binkley holds a B.S. in Textiles & Design from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master’s in Urban Planning from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Formerly a public policy analyst, Lisa has worked as a studio fiber artist since 2000 and has been teaching since 2007. Her award-winning artwork has been selected for national and international exhibitions. Her art is represented in public, private, and corporate collections. Lisa enjoys sharing her passion for fiber art through her artwork, workshops, and lectures. She and her husband, illustrator Ed Binkley, have two young-adult children. Lisa and Ed live in the woods of Madison, Wisconsin with their big fluffy dog.

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