This is a warm-up exercise workshop for hand weavers who want to add to their design skills. We will create a garment for our models using only trash bags. Trash bags of different sizes, colors, and styles are used because they are rectangles, inexpensive, and easily available.
Based on the simple format of a trash bag, we decide what to do for necks, arms, and legs. For inspiration, there will be a review of techniques used by other cultures that turn a rectangle into garment shapes. Cutting, taping, braiding, and laminating plastic bags are examples of the techniques that could be used in this exercise.
The workshop will take 1 to 3 hours with a fashion show of designs after the session. Participants pair up as designers and models to collaborate.
Fee: $450 plus lodging, meals, and travel costs. The class will require an adequate space with tables, chairs, plug-ins for machines, and adequate lighting.
Classes held on Zoom have a $150 utility fee.
Materials fee: $40 for duct tape, trash bags, and shipping.
This lecture introduces “The Oregon Weaver” with her unique handwoven designs from the Pacific Northwest.
Work featured are garments, scarves, and shawls. The talk covers her process from inspiration to design.
The presentation will take 1 to 1 -1/2 hours with examples of work.
Fee: $400 plus lodging, meals, and travel costs.
The lecture held on Zoom will have a $150 utility fee.
This is a 2 or 3-day workshop for weavers who want to cut and sew their own. This is an intense 2 or 3-day experience to design and sew with the handwoven cloth. It explores pattern layout, individual fit issues, and creative design solutions. Participants layout, cut, and sew their own custom garments with my guidance. Having their yardage is a prerequisite. They need to bring a pattern they want to use and sewing machines. The workshop would require tables and chairs for several sewing machines and tables to cut fabric.
Fee: $650 a day plus lodging, meals, and travel costs. The class will require an adequate space with tables, chairs, plug-ins for machines, and adequate lighting.
Classes held on Zoom will have a $150 utility fee.
Materials fee: $45 which includes Pellon, interfacing, and shipping.
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This presentation chronicles a six-year journey of working with the style magazine Tearsheet PDX and the photos created in their studio. Tips on getting good images of handwoven garments will be discussed as well as my explorations into creating short videos to help experience the garments.
Fee: $350 plus lodging, meals, and travel costs. Workshops by Zoom have a $150 utility fee.
This is a 40-minute PowerPoint Presentation of projects I have been involved with that are in Public Spaces and includes some information and outcomes of the Comprehensive Educational Training Act 1974-1980. The projects are: the ongoing restoration of the textiles of the historic Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood, OR, and the
SunRiver Lodge restoration under the direction of Larry Kirkland in 1984.
Fees: $350 plus lodging, meals, and travel costs.
Presentation on Zoom utility fee:$150