Eco printing (botanical printing) involves collecting leaves, plants, and flowers to imprint their images directly upon the leather. Collect botanical matter, then learn how to imprint on both top grain and lambskin leather naturally and in color. Use your newly imprinted pieces to start exploring construction techniques that you might apply to making leather designs into beautiful handbags, clothing, jewelry, and even shoes in the future. Note: materials fee may exceed $100.

$140

M Theresa Brown is an award-winning artist whose professional art career embraces many areas of the arts. She studied Commercial Art and Printmaking at East Carolina University. Subsequent years in printmaking and graphic design work led her to explore the fiber arts. Using many similar skills and accumulated knowledge, she evolved as a hand painter, felter and ecoprinter on natural fibers. Her articles and designs in the fiber arts have appeared in international publications such as "No Serial Number" and "Belle Armoire". She is the first instructor to teach eco printing on leather in the U.S. She has been an instructor at many fiber art shows. She and her artist husband, Stephen Filarsky reside in rural NC with their alpacas, chickens and family dogs!