The Camden Garden Club is scheduled to meet at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, at the American Legion Hall, 91 Pearl St., with guest speaker Amanda Affleck.

Affleck will give a presentation entitled “Natural dyes: Conjuring color from cultivated and wild harvested plants.”

Affleck is a textile artist and maker, and is especially inspired by the spectrum of hues that come from plants and other natural dye sources. She lives in Somerville on the Hewett farmstead, where she runs her textile studio, A Skirt of Leave, according to a news release from the garden club.

She offers dye classes on her farm and at Belfast Fiberarts, where she sells her handmade and naturally dyed textiles.

Affleck will talk about methods for extracting dye color from plants and how to achieve a range of colors on yarn and cloth. She will also share examples of the many colors that come from plants that grow in Maine, both cultivated and wild harvested, as well as some of the many print techniques for creating designs on fabric with botanical dyes.

After the presentation, there will be a short club meeting; all are invited to attend.

The Camden Garden Club meets the third Thursday of each month, April through October, at the American Legion Hall in Camden. Guests and prospective members are welcome.

For more information about the club and its activities, visit camdengardenclub.org or email info@camdengardenclub.org.

 

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