09/29/2026
Jen is hosting her annual botanical and found object photography printing day at the Slocan Valley Threads Guild
It’s a members day workshop so that means $2 plus you have to have an active membership. You can join this wonderful group for $10, just go to the IG, FB or website pages and contact them to become a member. It’s a wonderful group of textilians!
Botanical and found object stamping member day
With Jennifer McCaw
Sunday Oct 11
12-3pm
It’s that time of year again! Gather your plant matter, vegetables, and fun found objects for an easy and fun way to decorate clothing, paper and home accessories.
Participants should bring:
To Print on:
Fabric (natural fibres): clothing, cushion covers, totes, patches, and fabric to be made into other things
Paper: craft paper, card blanks, sheets of paper, sticker paper, old book pages etc (paper to print on)
To print with:
A variety of objects that have a flat side and can have paint applied to and be washed off: tools, cut glass bowls have nice pattern on the bottom and so do glass jars etc things like old kitchen tools with an interesting surface ie grater, whisk, forks, spoons, wooden spoons. Objects around the house, cassette tapes, clothes pins, crochet hooks etc, old doilies, interesting textured fabric, there is no limit and lots of happy surprises
Fresh plant leaves and flowers (fresh work best) feathers, whatever you like in nature even bark and stones make nice prints
Fruits or vegetables and a knife to cut them open (make amazing prints)
Other items
newspaper /scrap paper to protect your work space and to press down botanicals
Fabric paints/ silkscreen inks
Acrylic paint for paper printing
A plastic cutting board or glass sheet to roll out ink /paint
A brayer (printing roller if you have), paint brush or sponge
A rag to wipe your hands
I will have silkscreen ink and acrylic paint and application tools that we can share if you don’t have any :)
