Registration Required through The Clearing website.

Learn to make and maintain a natural indigo vat with safer, benign ingredients. Explore the techniques of shibori to create patterns on natural fibers. Final project will be to make a Japanese market bag to showcase your shibori and dye work. Appropriate for beginner, Intermediate and above but basic sewing skills are required. A materials fee will include fabric for sample sizes, and various “blanks” for dyeing, plus the fabric needed to make the market bag plus threads, needles, the dye used in class, nitrile gloves and dust makes. All fibers will be pre-scoured and ready to dye.

The Summer Program, which runs from May through October, is The Clearing’s oldest and the one that most closely resembles Jensen’s original folk school vision. The mainstay of the Summer Program is week-long classes, with 25 to 35 students and instructors living at The Clearing, eating family-style meals and renewing their spirit through close contact with the native landscape. The Clearing experience is made up of many special components. The classes, sense of community, forests, meadows, water, sunsets, home-cooked meals, traditions and history all blend to create a wonderful place to learn, relax, reflect and make new friends.

Registration begins March 5.