First Friday: Your Dye Is Bugged—The Process and Ingredients of Dye
Color from Crushed Cochinilla. From Flickr user Ryan Greenberg.
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Date:
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September 3, 2010
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5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
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Location:
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CHF
315 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106 |
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Open to the Public |
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Fee:
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Free
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Turn your entire wardrobe Phillies red.
Karen Karuza of the Philadelphia Art Institute’s Fashion Design Department will discuss her work with a Mexican red dye made from cochinilla, a bug that lives on the nopal cactus. Karuza will demonstrate the process used to make this natural dye and show how various additives affect dye colors.
CHF's newest exhibit, Marvels and Ciphers: A Look Inside the Flask,and permanent exhibit, Making Modernity, will be open for viewing.
CHF joins over 40 Old City museums, galleries, and shops in opening its doors from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. each month for First Friday.
Learn more about First Fridays in Philadelphia's Old City Arts District.
This project has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Heritage Philadelphia Program.
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