Jennifer Gould Designs

Art Dolls

Making Your Own Stamps and Stencils

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Your own handmade stamps, stencils and rubbing plates give you the most exciting patterning.  We’ll use rubber insulation foam, polystyrene plates and many other unusual but easily available items.  These produce patterning that’s personal and never seen before in commercial products.  Students will use textile paints to sample each of their stamps and stencils.  Two days. Two days. Supply list sent upon paid registration.  $200 plus $20 for materials.




Contemporary Embroidery: From Surface Design to the Stitched Mark

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Pre-Register now for:
Wed-Thurs, August 22 – 23, 2018

For those with an adventuresome spirit but looking to work in a slower, more contemplative textile method, students will use textile paints to print and paint fabric with images of their own design during the first morning.  These images will create pattern, areas of color, or designs that inspire students to put hand stitching onto the fabric —anything goes!  During the afternoon and the next two days, the “stitched mark” or one’s own personal stitch vocabulary, will be discussed and used on fabric to create rhythm, movement, and visual and physical texture.  This workshop will strive to have students look at stitching on fabric, not as decorative, but as an expression of themselves—pulling something new and different from inside onto the cloth.  Jennifer will have many samples of her own embroidered pieces, images of contemporary embroiderers’ work from around the world, and books on hand.  Two days. Supply list sent upon paid registration.  $200 plus $20 materials fee.




Dyeing for Blue: Indigo with Shibori Techniques

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The seemingly mysterious dye, INDIGO, used throughout the world but famous for its special development in Japan, dyes BLUE —- from light to darkest of navy.  When combined with the Japanese technique of SHIBORI (stitch and bound resists), the two create delightful patterning on natural fabrics (cotton, linen, rayon, silk, wool).  Further combined with already colored fabric, multiple colors can be achieved.  Students will have their own indigo pot, learn about the history and use of indigo around the world while stitching their fabric, and develop a basic library of stitches in order to design pieces using shibori.  Fabric, yarn, and small pieces of clothing (shirts/blouses, thin fabric dresses, small jackets, scarves) can be dyed.  A complete supply list will be sent upon registration. Two days.  $200 plus $12 for materials.





Disperse Dyes: Printing/Painting on Synthetic Fabric

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Pre-register now for
August 18-19, Sat./Sunday

Disperse dyes are used on any synthetic fabric such as polyester and acetate muslin.  The transfer prints made with the dyes create fascinating patterning which can be layered for multiple color overlays especially on sheer fabric.  We’ll cover exciting possibilities such as basic painting techniques to make transfer prints, manipulating fabric and steaming pleats in place while printing color, using laser copies to print photographic images, and using resists to create patterning (such as leaves, lace).  Two days.  Supply list sent upon registration.  $200 plus $20 for materials.



Art-in-the-Park

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August 4, 2018
9am-4pm

Centennial Park
Holland, Michigan

Booth #140 (down the walk-way from where I used to be on the corner of 10th & Central)