The Art of Botanical Printing on Raw Silk Noil with Linda Illumanardi

Join artist, Linda Illumanardi, at the Theodore Payne Foundation for a delightful day of botanical printing using California native plants and other mediterranean species. Create your own beautiful and unique accessory to wear this summer! We'll learn to “bundle” a yard long piece of silk. Raw noil is a lovely, quite durable, fabric without the refined sheen of the smooth, shiny, slippery silk that is so common. This large sampler can be used as a table runner adorning your center piece, a bureau scarf, a wall hanging, or even a scarf to wear around your neck!

We welcome you to hop on the California silk trail to discover the science behind this art form, as we choose specific leaves and flowers to make a personal design, immerse it into a steaming kettle, and open to reveal gorgeous natural prints!

This botanical experience may include a short walk through the Theodore Payne Foundation's Demonstration Gardens to help us identify native and non-native dye plants utilized by our resident artist. We recommend comfortable shoes, clothes that can get messy, and a notebook or tablet for taking notes.

Supplies: A variety of gathered printing materials will be provided. Participants are asked to bring their own scissors and any California native leaves or wild flowers from their own garden they'd like to use.

(This is strictly an 18+ event)

Please choose the desired time slot for your reservation. Each registration is only for 1 session, not both.

Linda Illumanardi is a painter (MA in Painting/Modernism & Visual Studies/Education, 1996)) seeking balance of content and form. Multimedia experience include handmade books, sacred vessels, monoprints, dry point etching, pottery, and collagraph plates. She was commissioned to create a limited edition publication at Otis College in 2001 and in 2010 embarked onto Botanical Printing, mindfully choosing leaves to sample for pigment and tannin content that is forced onto paper, fabric, and leather via heat and contact.

This creative process eventually led to her representing the United States for the past two years at the Global Botanical Printing event, having curated an international, botanically printed, peace flag exhibition that was displayed from the Los Angeles County library in Altadena (2020) to Tasmania, Australia (2021) and onto Indonesia (2022).

Her most recent teaching credits include a year-long curriculum on Botanical Printing and Natural Dyeing through the Picerne Family Foundation Grant.

Connect:

https://www.instagram.com/linda.illumanardi

Host or Publisher Theodore Payne Foundation