Portland Fashion Institute is a nationally accredited private nonprofit career institute of higher learning and Portland’s only accredited fashion design college.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! JANUARY 17 & 18. PFI FABRIC & PATTERN SWAP. WINTER COAT DRIVE TOO! CLICK LINK FOR DETAILS
Meet one of the nation’s rising textile designers, Tricia Langman. British-born Langman has designed for Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Halston and Donna Karan.
Her collections have been featured at Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of New York City. She created a hand-painted designer gown for Celine Dion to wear at the Grammy’s. Locally, she created a collection for Pendleton Home under the Tricia Langman label.
Take advantage of her insights and skills in four textile design weekend workshops:
Textile Design 1: Hand painting and dyeing. Use dyeing techniques of the past to create scarfs and fabrics. Learn tie-dye and hand painting techniques, shibori, over-dyeing, rust dyeing, vegetable dyeing and batik. Supply List
Textile Design 2: Fabric printing. Produce fabric samples, a length of fabric and create surface designs suitable for garments or home decor. Learn screen-printing, stenciling and devoré, Japanese katazome printing, block and mono printing techniques. Supply List
Textile Design 3: Sustainable textiles. Learn in a mix of lecture and a practice lab. Make leather out of seaweed and mushrooms. Use fibers to weave, felt and color with natural plant dyes. Supply List
There is not a Supply List for every class. If you do not see a link below, then this class does not have a Supply List.
1 block north of NE 43rd & Sandy
BUS: #12 bus
MAX: 7 blocks from the Hollywood MAX station
