FABSCRAP PHL Workshop: Leather Painting with Unruly Patchouli

Join Peyton “Unruly” Patchouli to learn how they hand paint leather!

Peyton will take you through the process of prepping, painting, and properly sealing your own painted designs onto upcycled leather items. Peyton will share their specialized textile painting techniques and methods for creating beautiful long lasting pieces utilizing accessible craft materials.

With this workshop you’ll create a personalized hand painted leather sample alongside their demonstration.

Please be sure to bring all supplies needed with you! Unless otherwise noted below FABSCRAP will not supply all materials.

Supply list:

Please bring:

• Paint! Plain old acrylic is a great alternative to pricey specialized leather paint. I will have an assortment of acrylic paints available to use but feel free to bring your own fave colors!
• Paint brushes! I will also have a variety of brushes available but I encourage you to bring your favorite brushes that you’re familiar with using!
• Lastly come with an idea for what sort of design you’d like to execute on your leather! Bonus points if you bring in sketches so you’re ready to paint to your hearts content!
• Any leather items or pieces that you would like to paint on. FABSCRAP will provide smaller leather scraps during the workshop to test out paints and techniques but if you would like to start a full project you can bring your own leather item or shop through FABSCRAP’s selection!

FABSCRAP and Peyton will provide:

• Leather scraps for sampling! These will be smaller scraps to test out paints and techniques during class, if you would like a large piece for your project you can shop in person at FABSCRAP Philly or check out our online store selection, or bring your own leather item!
• GAC 900 or any other fabric painting medium! When using regular acrylic on leather it’s recommended to mix with a fabric painting medium so that the paint stays flexible and resists cracking with wear and tear.
• Cardboard mixing palettes
• Rubbing Alcohol
• Some scrap fabric rags to clean, deglaze, and seal your leather pieces. Peyton personally use old cut up t-shirt scraps as work rags for this project.
• Leather varnish, sealant, finisher, or balm (ex. Angelus acrylic finisher, Dr. Martens wonder balm, resolene etc.)
• Printed Instructions

Please consider saving textiles from landfills for your projects! FABSCRAP’s variety of leather skins and scraps are a great choice! Make a shopping appointment before the workshop if you’d like to shop for additional items for use in this workshop!

Your ticket price allows us to provide a stipend to our Workshop Instructors for their time in sharing their skills with the

FABSCRAP Community. All tickets are non-refundable. We encourage you to consider donating as another way to support our work as a sustainable resource – FABSCRAP is the only option available for the fashion industry to recycle and redistribute unused material, and the most accessible way for consumers to find saved-from-landfill fabric, trim, leather, and yarn.

FABSCRAP is a 501(c)3 nonprofit working to end commercial textile “waste.” Your donations and purchase of workshop materials from our online store support our work and allows us to continue hosting these workshops. Stay in touch with us at fabscrap.org and on Instagram at @fab_scrap.

Instructor Bio: Peyton “Unruly” Patchouli is an asegi 2-spirit self taught interdisciplinary artist originally from Florida, currently living in Philadelphia. They are a strong proponent of the D.I.Y “do it yourself” ethos; anyone can teach themselves how to make anything without the requirement for largely inaccessible higher education, especially in the arts.

They take pride in hand crafting all stages of their work in house (literally in their home). Product design, photography, and shipment all happen with accessiblity and waste reduction in mind.

They are currently focusing their years of experience on tattooing technicolor dreams, making prismatic jewelry for disco freaks, hand printing clothes and accessories for art fags and baroque bitches, painting on just about everything from canvas, leather, to fabulous street trash and creating miniature worlds fit for their ever growing ménage of furbies and troll dolls to inhabit.

Their art, regardless of the medium, takes the viewer to alternate dimensions of acidic holographic visions. They love playing with light, colors and perception. If you are ready for the experience they will show you the new dimensions they are creating.

Follow Peyton on Instagram @unrulypatchouli and visit their website to see how I deconstruct clothing into wearable art pieces.

THESE DIRECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT:

The FABSCRAP warehouse is located in Unit 601 within BOK, which is accessible by foot, bike/scooter, car, subway and bus.

SUBWAY: Broad Street Line to Snyder Station

BUS: 45, 47, 47M, 79 Lines

BIKE: Approach BOK’s Pedestrian Entrance on 821 Dudley Street, between 8th and 9th Street. Free outdoor bike parking is available next to the entrance on 9th Street. BOK is an Indego bike share location with a kiosk located on the corner of 8th and Mifflin Street.

DRIVING:

Traveling I-95S, take Exit 20 for Columbus Boulevard towards Washington Avenue. Keep right at the fork, following signs for Snyder Avenue/ Oregon Avenue. Turn right onto South Christopher Columbus Boulevard/ Columbus Boulevard. Turn right onto Tasker Street. Turn left onto East Moyamensing Avenue. Turn right onto McKean Street. Turn right onto South 9th Street.

Traveling I-95N, take Exit 17 to merge onto PA-611N/ South Broad Street towards Pattison Avenue. Turn right onto East Snyder Avenue. Turn left onto South 9th Street.

Traveling I-76E, take Exit 350 to merge onto Packer Avenue. Turn right onto South 10th Street. Turn right onto West Oregon Avenue. Turn left onto South 9th Street.

Traveling I-76W, take Exit 350 for 7th Street towards Packer Avenue. Keep left at the fork to continue towards South 7th Street. Turn left onto South 7th Street. Turn left onto West Shunk Street. Turn right onto South 9th Street.

How to locate FABSCRAP within BOK:

At the bottom of this page, and in your confirmation email, is a QR code, which works as a virtual key at the 9th Street entrance of Bok.

To the right of the door is a digital screen where you can scan this code.

1) Click the “Virtual Key” button on the home screen.

2) Hold the QR Code in front of the camera, located on the left side of the screen

When you hear a buzz/ding, the door unlocks so you can enter. The west elevator to our space on the 6th floor will be in the first hallway on your right when you enter through the 9th Street doors. The Dudley Street entrance of BOK is open to the public and does not require a key code. If you enter at Dudley, continue down the hallway and up the ramp until you reach the welcome desk. Take a left at the desk and another left right before the double doors. The west elevator is just around that corner- painted yellow and blue. We are on floor 6! Click 6 and eagerly await your arrival at our warehouse!

***(For ramp access, please use the ADA entrance on Mifflin St. The attendant at the Ambassador Desk will guide you to the West Elevator)

Need assistance? Contact us at (445)-300-8980