ABSTRACT
Deborah Dryden is an award-winning costume designer who has crossed boundaries between art, theatre, and technology to distill and describe techniques of painting and dyeing fabric. Dryden’s study of textile painting and dyeing has produced a digestible manual for fellow and future theatrical artisans to use. Scattered throughout the studio are renderings of costume designers Dryden admires: Desmond Heeley, Lewis Brown, and some of Dryden’s contemporaries, like Bob Morgan. Dryden’s family spent many summers in Stratford, Ontario, the home of the Stratford Festival. Dryden’s costume design featured the royal family in light hues, and throughout the play the characters become bloodier and bloodier. A few of Dryden’s favorite workshops include Deconstructed Screen Printing from Kerr Grabowski and Carol Soderlund’s workshop, Fiber Reactive Dye Chemistry. Dryden stands on the shoulders of several influential designers and textile artists who have used surface modification and texture in interesting and unique ways.
