Ashland Center for Theatre Studies

Past Elective Course

Costume Crafts: Dyeing and Distressing

Ashland, Oregon

A week-long 3-credit graduate level course geared toward high school and community college theatre educators, covering several techniques for creating costumes from clothing:

• Adapt clothing to create costumes
• Experiment with mixing Rit dyes to achieve a desired shade on cotton, silk, wool, and rayon
• Apply color theory to costume design and dyeing
• Learn a variety of techniques to age a costume for the stage
• Create recipes for stage blood
• Play with sand paper, wraps and razors to break down fabric
• Investigate distressing with patches, paint, fabric markers, dye and sculpting medium
• Discover different types of fabric painting
• Attend an Oregon Shakespeare Festival production
• Come away with multiple techniques for hands-on projects you can use in your classroom or productions

Faculty

Maggie Dick, freelance costume designer and technician

Daily Schedule

Evening Schedule 2010